Indigenous people of Bolivia, with a small number also living in Brazil
For other uses, see Chiquitano (disambiguation).
Chiquitano
Drawing of typical Chiquitano dress, by Alcide d'Orbigny, 1831
Total population
88,358 (2012)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Bolivia (Santa Cruz Department Beni) 87,885 (2012)[1]
Brazil (Mato Grosso) 473 (2012)[1]
Languages
Chiquitano, Spanish, Portuguese[2]
Religion
Traditional tribal religion, Christianity[2]
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, Bolivia, with a small number also living in Beni Department and in Mato Grosso, Brazil. In the 2012 census, self-identified Chiquitanos made up 1.45% of the total Bolivian population or 145,653 people, the largest number of any lowland ethnic group.[3] A relatively small proportion of Bolivian Chiquitanos speak the Chiquitano language. Many reported to the census that they neither speak the language nor learned it as children.[4] The Chiquitano ethnicity emerged among socially and linguistically diverse populations required to speak a common language by the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos.[5]
^ abc"Chiquitano: Introduction." Instituto Socioambiental: Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 31 March 2012
^ ab"Chiquitano." Ethnologue. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
^"Censo de Población y Vivienda 2012 Bolivia Características de la Población". Instituto Nacional de Estadística, República de Bolivia. p. 29. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
^Albó, Xavier; Carlos Romero (2009). Autonomías Indígenas en la realidad boliviana y su nueva Constitución(PDF). La Paz: Vicepresidencia del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia. p. 19.
^Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) (2005). Los pueblos indígenas de Bolivia: diagnóstico sociodemográfico a partir del censo del 2001. Santiago, Chile: United Nations. p. 39.
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Chiquitano (also Bésɨro or Tarapecosi) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in the central region of Santa Cruz Department of eastern Bolivia and the...
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several dozen indigenous languages, most prominently Aymara, Quechua, Chiquitano, and Guaraní; Bolivian Sign Language (closely related to American Sign...
Chiquitos were the Chiquitano, who still speak the Chiquitano language today. Languages historically spoken in the Chiquitania included: Chiquitano Gorgotoqui...
University. Retrieved 19 February 2021. Galeote, Jesús. "Tomo III: Oriente – Chiquitano". Lenguas de Bolivia. Centre for Language Studies-Radboud University....
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palatalized consonant. So is the difference between the two Migueleño Chiquitano stops. In both languages alveolo-palatal consonants correspond to the...
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Chuquisaca. There also are ethnic populations in the east, composed of the Chiquitano, Chané, Guaraní and Moxos, among others, who inhabit the departments of...
major transnational regions of Latin America such as the Gran Chaco, the Chiquitano, and the Amazon rainforest. In the process, they have unintentionally...
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north of the Chaco region. The suffix -ka is a plural morpheme of the Chiquitano language, but has been assimilated into Pauna. There could be a relationship...
and grandango ("very large"). Loanwords from Chiquitano or from an extinct variety close to Chiquitano include bi 'genipa', masi 'squirrel', peni 'lizard'...
total of 1.5×10^6 km2 (580,000 sq mi). The Pantanal is bounded by the Chiquitano dry forests to the west and northwest, by the Arid Chaco dry forests to...
representatives of four indigenous peoples of the Bolivian East: Guarani-Izoceños, Chiquitanos, Ayoreos and Guarayos. Currently, CIDOB gathers 34 peoples living in...
a component of the Caatinga ecoregion in northwestern Brazil and the Chiquitano dry forests ecoregion of eastern Bolivia and adjacent portions of Brazil...
Global Information
Bolivia (
Santa Cruz Department 
Beni) 87,885 (2012)[1]
Brazil (
Mato Grosso) 473 (2012)[1]