Takuru Puku

Takuru Puku lies near the upper Paraná and the mouth of the Acaray River, in the forested east of Paraguay. In the seventeenth century Jesuits established the Guaraní mission of Nuestra Señora de la Natividad del Acaray in this wider region. It received refugees from Guairá as Portuguese raiders advanced, but its inhabitants were forced to move again. Some survivors later joined mission settlements on the Uruguay River.