[1] As the Jesuit order was expelled from Spanish America in 1767 the project was continued by Franciscans who established the mission in 1777.
According to Diego Barros Arana "an Indian" called Felipe was said to have obtained a letter from the Governor of Valdivia to the head of the mission.
[2] This letter would have revealed that the purpose of the mission was to "lull the Indians in the confidence of peace, to give death to their warriors and reduce more easily the peoples into slavery".
[2] The uprising begun in September 1792, with a series of assaults against Spanish settlers in Río Bueno and Lago Ranco.
[2] Friar Antonio Curcoa (or Cuzcoo) who ran the mission was "tied naked to the tail of a vigorous horse and dragged around in the countryside until he ceased to exist".