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Chiquitano & Chiquitos Missions

1561 – present
Native nationSouth America

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.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Chiquitano & Chiquitos Missions — the shape you scrub through changes in 1561 · 1691 · 1768.

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