Setting the Record Straight: The Catholic Camelot - The Jesuit Reducciones

It was Catholic and it was a real-life Camelot !

It lasted from 1609 to 1767 in a vast area of South America.  A total population of almost 300,000 Catholics spread across a Jesuit-ruled independent country that encompassed the huge area of today’s Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay. There were  30 technologically advanced cities of up to 20,000 citizens.

Hollywood made a great movie about it: The Mission (1986) Listen to some of the award winning soundtrack here. Music by Ennio Morricone. It starred Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro, Liam Nesson, Aidan Quinn.