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Paraguay

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  • Workers cobble a street in the former mission town of Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay in jobs that pay two dollars a day. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission at Trinidad de Paraná (Parana with acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná (Parana with acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná (Parana with acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná (Parana with acute accent on final a), Paraguay, where the bell tower of the site's first of two churches stands. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • An 18th-century wash basin (cq -- not a holy water font) lines a scaristy wall with original roof tiles at San Cosme y Damian, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. The main church at San Cosme y Damian collapsed more than a century ago, but the community still uses the first provisional church built on the site. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Michael the Archangel slays a heraphrodite devil in a Guaraní-carved statue in the Jesuit mission church at San Cosme y Damian, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. The main church at San Cosme y Damian collapsed more than a century ago, but the community still uses the first provisional church built on the site. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Inscriptions from local kids line a chalk board that stands among 18th-century statues in the Jesuit mission church at San Cosme y Damian, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. The main church at San Cosme y Damian collapsed more than a century ago, but the community still uses the first provisional church built on the site. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Ancient tears stream down the face of an18th-century statue in the Jesuit mission church at San Cosme y Damian, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. The main church at San Cosme y Damian collapsed more than a century ago, but the community still uses the first provisional church built on the site. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná (acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Tourists pass the bell tower of the first Jesuit church at Trinidad de Paraná (acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • The ornately carved pulpit of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná (acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Arched colonades stand alone among the ruins of the Jesuit mission at Trinidad de Paraná (Parana with acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A bird flies past a crop field of sunflowers near Santa Rosa, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission at Trinidad de Paraná (acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Chilean tourists Domingo Martinez and wife Lucia Medina stand in the entryway of the main church ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná (acute accent on final a), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • School girls play on the main church square at San Ignacio Guazu, Paraguay, the site of the oldest of scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet. The missions were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Workers cobble a street in the former mission town of Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay on jobs that pay two dollars a day. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Statuary carved by Guarani Indians sits on display in a museum at San Ignacio Guazu, Paraguay, the site of the oldest of scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet. The missions were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Workers cobble a street in the former mission town of Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Father and son walk through the main church square at San Ignacio Guazu, Paraguay, the site of the oldest of scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet. (EDS NOTE: This is not the mission church, but a 20th-century replacement.) The missions were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Lider Jaquet, 12, left, Mariano Gomez, Feliciano and Ramon Jaquet pull down a branch of a dead tree to make the log clear a nearby roof in the former mission town of Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Irma Ramirez and Lelis Martinez, 3, wife and daughter of museum caretaker Isabelino Martinez, stand next to a statue of Saint Anne at a religious art museum in the former mission town of Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Daihina Servin (cq), 5, right, and Yanicia Montiel, 10, hang from tree branches near a small calvary hill that dates from a 17th-century mission in Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Dario Maidana peers into a 300-year-old srping near Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A lunch crowd fills a small restaurant in San Ignacio Guazu, Paraguay, the site of the oldest of scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet. The missions were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A street dog peers into a small market advertising fresh meat in Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light spills through the belltower at the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Fine carved details survive the weather at the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • The ruins of the Jesuit Reduccion of Trinidad, Paraguay, stand in the evening light. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light spills through a sanctuary window at the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light spills through a sanctuary window at the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Columns cast shadows on the wall of the main church sanctuary at the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light silhouettes the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Evening light spills through sanctuary windows at the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A weathered niche stands in the wall of the sacristy at the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • The Rio Iguaçú (cedila and a u with acute accent) winds through in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet. Scores of Jesuit missions were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A roofless colonade stands at the ruins if the Jesuit mission church at Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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