Guayrá (initially called Gobernación del Guayrá) was a historical region of the Spanish Empire, located in the Governorate of Paraguay,[citation needed]...

Huaca guayra is a species of true weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae. It is found in North America. "Huaca guayra Report". Integrated Taxonomic...

hand in a fight. In 1567, was regidor of Ciudad Real del Guayrá, and governor of the Guayrá. Juan Abalos de Mendoza Juan de Ayolas Gonzalo Casco Martín...

22 years the Jesuits focused on founding 15 missions in the province of Guayrá, corresponding to the western two-thirds of present-day Paraná state of...

the capital of Paraguay. The first governor of the Spanish territory of Guayrá initiated a policy of intermarriage between European men and indigenous...

(1563–1717) (1723–1739) Real Audiencia of Concepción (1565–1575) Governorate of Guayrá (1617–1776) Real Audiencia of Buenos Aires (1661–1671) Real Audiencia of...

de Saavedra ordered the Jesuits to areas surrounding the Parana River, Guayrá and areas inhabited by guaycurúes to found towns and evangelize the natives...

Died peacefully. Governor Gonzalo de Mendoza (1556–1558). Ciudad Real de Guayrá founded by Ruy Díaz de Malgarejo in 1557. Died peacefully. Governor Francisco...

La Guaira (Spanish: [la ˈɣwajɾa] ) is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of the same name (formerly named Vargas) and the country's main port. It...

Observations on the Islands From Blanco to the Rocas, on the Coast of La Guayra. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1832. p. 15. de Saint-Méry, Médéric Louis Élie...

Juan del Sur; St. Nicolas Mole; Port Plata; Santo Domingo; Curacao; and La Guayra, with the latitudes of the several stations. Washington: US Hydrographic...

enslaved. Beginning in 1631, the Jesuits moved their missions from the Guayrá province (present day Brazil and Paraguay), about 500 km (310 miles) southwest...

bandeira group that he co-led with Nicolau Barreto [pt] to the region of Guayrá, in modern-day Paraná in search of minerals and Indigenous slaves. These...

the east of Asuncion known as the lands of Guayrá. In 1557, Ruy Diaz Melgarejo founded another city in Guayrá named Ciudad Real with the purpose of reducing...

(Spanish: Gobernación del Paraguay), originally called the Governorate of Guayrá, was a governorate of the Spanish Empire and part of the Viceroyalty of...

occupied by the Spaniards in 1557, when they founded the Ciudad del Real Guayrá, in the current city of Terra Roxa. A new occupation started in 1730 with...

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responsible for the destruction of most of the Jesuit missions of Spanish Guayrá and the enslavement of over 60,000 indigenous people. Between 1648 and 1652...

by Jesuit priests José Cataldino and Simón Maceta in the region called Guayrá by the natives and La Pinería by the Spanish conquistadores in present Paraná...

successfully capturing the Caracas seaport of La Guayra. July – After taking the Caracas seaport of La Guayra the previous month, the buccaneers (under Michel...

settlers from the towns of Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo and Ciudad Real del Guayrá begun to move into the Maracayú area that the old settlers regarded as theirs...

commanded by Commodore Charles Knowles participated in the failed attacks to La Guayra and Puerto Cabello. In the 1744 she was renamed as HMS Enterprise and patrolled...

Governorate of Rio de la Plata in 1556. During his term, the Ciudad Real del Guayrá was founded by Ruy Díaz de Malgarejo at the confluence of the Pepirí-Guazú...

Juan del Sur; St. Nicolas Mole; Port Plata; Santo Domingo; Curacao; and La Guayra, with the latitudes of the several stations. Washington: US Hydrographic...

his health. After a five-week journey Robert arrived at the port of La Guayra in Venezuela on 23 July 1824. He investigated building a breakwater and...

the modern city of São Paulo, to Ciudad Real de Guayrá, Province of Paraguay. Ciudad Real de Guayrá was a Spanish-held city in the present-day Brazilian...

Guaira may refer to: Guayrá, a former region of the Spanish Empire in what is now modern Paraguay and Brazil Guaíra Falls, former waterfalls on the Paraná...

Besides the times of war, the slavery of Guarani people, brought from Guayrá (now Paraná) and Tapes (now Rio Grande do Sul) and Carijós from Santa Catarina...

enslaved. Beginning in 1631, the Jesuits moved their missions from the Guayrá province (present day Brazil and Paraguay), about 500 km (310 miles) southwest...

the Spanish crown. He almost absolutely ruled the independent province of Guayrá for 30 years. Ruy Díaz Ortiz Melgarejo was born in Salteras of Seville,...