Forest-edge peoples of the dry Chiquitania east of Santa Cruz, gathered after 1691 into eleven Jesuit reductions whose painted churches and Baroque music survived the empire that built them.
Endure: the Chiquitano are one of Bolivia's largest lowland peoples, and the living mission towns of San Javier, Concepción and San José are UNESCO World Heritage.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Chiquitano & Chiquitos Missions — the shape you scrub through changes in 1561 · 1691 · 1768.
Cunninghame Graham's history of the Jesuit reductions, the mission system that gathered the Chiquitano after 1691 (broad mission context).
Colonial Latin America survey covering the lowland Bolivian mission provinces (broad context).