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The Jesuit Missions of Moxos are located in the Llanos de Moxos of Beni department in eastern Bolivia. Distinguished by a unique fusion of European and Amerindian cultural influences, the missions were founded as reductions or reducciones de indios by Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries to convert local tribes to Christianity.

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Jesuit Missions of Moxos

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The Jesuit Missions of Moxos are located in the Llanos de Moxos of Beni department in eastern Bolivia. Distinguished by a unique fusion of European and...

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Moxos

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an indigenous people of Bolivia Llanos de Moxos (archaeology) Jesuit Missions of Moxos Moxoene, or Moxos, an ancient Armenian province This disambiguation...

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Llanos de Moxos

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The Llanos de Moxos, also known as the Beni savanna or Moxos plains, is a tropical savanna ecoregion of the Beni Department of northern Bolivia. The Llanos...

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Moxo languages

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the primary lingua franca (Spanish: lengua general) used in the Jesuit Missions of Moxos. Ignaciano is used in town meetings unless outsiders are present...

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Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos

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The Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos are located in the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia. Six of these former missions (all now secular municipalities)...

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San Ignacio de Moxos

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Ignacio de Moxos (or San Ignacio) is a town in the Beni Department of northern Bolivia. San Ignacio de Moxos was founded in 1689 by the Jesuit missionaries...

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List of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos

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history of foundings and relocations of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos. Chiquitano language#Historical subgroups Jesuit Missions of Moxos Missions that...

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Lists of Spanish colonial missions of the Roman Catholic Church in the Americas

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de Tavarangue Jesuit Missions of Moxos Mission of Nahuel Huapi Mission of Río Bueno Jesuit missions among the Guaraní Mainas missions Misiones Orientales...

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Santa Ana del Yacuma

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(1994). Mission culture on the upper Amazon: native tradition, Jesuit enterprise, and secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880. Lincoln: University of Nebraska...

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Hernando de Cabrero

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code for the Jesuit missions in New Spain on September 20, 1662. In 1676, Cabrero approved the foundation of the Jesuit Missions of Moxos. Redden, Andrew...

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Spanish missions in the Americas

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Spanish missions in the Americas were Catholic missions established by the Spanish Empire during the 16th to 19th centuries in the period of the Spanish...

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List of Jesuit sites

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of San Ignacio de Zamucos (1724–1745) Mission of Santo Corazón Mission of Santiago de Chiquitos Mission of San Juan Bautista Jesuit Missions of Moxos...

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Mure language

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lived in the Jesuit Missions of Moxos. They mostly resided in San Simón Mission, with some also living in San Francisco de Borja Mission together with...

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Spanish missions in Texas

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The Spanish Missions in Texas comprise a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Dominicans, Jesuits, and Franciscans to spread the...

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Spanish missions in Georgia

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Province of Carolina, pushed into Guale Province, and some of them joined the Spanish missions. Missions in Spanish Florida were initially organized around the...

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Spanish missions in Arizona

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the missions in Hopi villages were met with repeated failures. The former mission is still visible today as a ruin. In the spring of 1687, the Jesuit missionary...

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Spanish missions in Baja California

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The Spanish missions in Baja California were a large number of religious outposts established by Catholic religious orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans...

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List of wars involving Peru

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Peru (and its predecessor states), or in his territory, to the present. Tung, Tiffiny (2007). "Trauma...

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Baures Municipality

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part of the municipality. Baures was founded as a Jesuit mission called Concepción by Father Lorenzo Legarda in 1708, as part of the Jesuit Missions of Moxos...

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