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José Guevara
1719–1806
A Jesuit priest and historian of colonial South America, he is best known for chronicling Paraguay, the Río de la Plata, and Tucumán. His surviving work offers a rare early narrative shaped by missionary experience and a deep interest in the region’s past.
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Historia del Paraguay, Río de La Plata y Tucumán
by José Guevara
About the author
Born in 1719 and dying in 1806, José Guevara was a Spanish Jesuit priest who spent part of his life in Argentina and Paraguay. Reference sources identify him as both a priest and a historian, and modern catalogs consistently connect him with the history of the Río de la Plata region.
He is chiefly remembered for Historia del Paraguay, Río de la Plata y Tucumán—also published in related editions under the longer title Historia de la conquista del Paraguay, Río de la Plata y Tucumán. The work is a historical account of colonial South America, especially Paraguay, Tucumán, and the wider Río de la Plata world, and it has remained accessible through major digital libraries and public-domain editions.
Because biographical information about him is fairly sparse in the sources readily available online, the clearest picture is of a learned Jesuit writer whose reputation rests on preserving an important regional history. For listeners interested in early Latin American chronicles, his writing offers both historical detail and the perspective of an 18th-century religious scholar.