Chiquitano
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The Chiquitano or Chiquitos are an Indigenous people of Bolivia, with a small number also living in Brazil. The Chiquitano primarily live in the Chiquitania tropical savanna of Santa Cruz Department,
Drawing of typical Chiquitano dress, by Alcide d'Orbigny, 1831
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Ñuflo de Chávez Province
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Ñuflo de Chávez is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the northern and central parts of the department. The name of the province honors the conquista
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…evangelization and confinement to towns under the authority of Jesuit missionaries from their 1692 arrival at San Javier de los Piñocas (in what is now Ñuflo de Chávez Province) until their 1767 expulsion from Spanish colonial possessions. Missions governed settlements known as reductions at San Javier de los Piñocas, Concepción…
Mission church in Concepción, one of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos (declared a World Heritage Site in 1990)
San Javier mission church