Tilala

Tilala is a name used by a Mocoví community in the plains of Santa Fe. The Mocoví, or Moqoit, speak a Guaycuruan language and traditionally hunted and gathered in the Chaco. In the eighteenth century Jesuit missionaries established settlements among them, including San Javier on the Paraná River in 1743. The nearby river system crossed a broad landscape of grasslands, woodland and seasonal wetlands.