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OnIn the upper Uruguayan west bank, Spanish Jesuits built a series of settlements in the mission to convert natives to catholicismCatholicism still in the 17th century. By 1755, these settlements grew to the point to become towns of thousands of inhabitants.

After the Treaty of Seville, these settlements  all fell under the Portuguese Crown, therefore, the Spanish ordered all Jesuits to leave the region, and move to AsuncíonAsunción and Buenos Aires. Unwilling to leave the region, the Jesuits kept their activities the way it was under Spanish control. The natives also feared they would lose their protected status now under Portugal.