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Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, the Royal Ordinance of Intendants of January 28, 1782, created the Government Tenure of the Thirty Towns of the Guarani Missions with greater administrative and religious influence from Asunción in the territory of Candelaria, with the remaining
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same time the capital of the governorship, in addition to the towns of Santa Ana, Loreto, San
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