Those sources don t mention Spanish settlements in Rio Grande do Sul because gasp there weren t Spanish settlements in Rio Grande do Sul And your asides about other subjects don t help Nobody is discussing Serra Ga cha here Ga chos aren t as mixed as Amazonian caboclos you are again ignorantly confusing MtDNA with genetic ancestry as a whole And anyway what has this to do with Brazilians of Spanish ancestry You still have absolutely no source supporting the existence of Spanish settlements in Rio Grande do Sul months after the beggining of this discussion And you will likely never have So stop being stubborn if your genetic study is right it completely demolishes all established knowledge about Rio Grande do Sul s demography history will have to be rewritten If true this is a breaktrough not a confirmation of what we already know Perhaps it is so but what you can t do is to pretend that the findings of that study are in accordance with historic knowledge And of course Azoreans did move hundred miles from the coast and ended up on the border with Argentina Where do you think the Dornelles in Get lio Dornelles Vargas came from Have you ever heard of sesmarias Do nt t you know that the Portuguese distributed sesmarias in Rio Grande do Sul to attract people there