[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] In 1852, Juan Pedro Planchón was the first Waldensian present in the Rio de la Plata Basin.
After his favorable report, in January 1857 he arrived in Montevideo the first contingent of Waldensian families, who were immediately transferred to Florida in Uruguay.
[2][3] The immigrants quickly realized that the conditions for their peaceful integration were not given in Florida and, in July 1858, they signed the contract to colonize what is now La Paz and Colônia Valdense, in the Colonia Department.
Some of the communities formed by Waldensian immigrants in Argentina will be served, from a spiritual point of view, by the Methodist Church.
[1] Furthermore, the denomination is closely related to the Waldensian Evangelical Church, with which it holds meetings on theological matters.