Stay at local ranches

As strange as it may sound, the souhern region of misiones breeds cattle within the confines of local ranches, even though just north the landscape is of a jungle type. Gauchos would too live here. And as gauchos, another key element of argentina's national identity developed here, the Mate. Hernandarias, Paraguay's Major at the time of Jesuits settlements, noticed that native troops would cope better with the rigourous tasks imposed than his own troops. He soon dis-covered natives were drinking a beverage that later was heralded as Mate (which is actually the name of the container that holds it, a small hollow pumpkin).