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Mission Attractions In Bolivia

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Bolivia , officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales a mostly flat region in the east of Bolivia. The sovereign state of Bolivia is a constitutionally unitary state, divided into nine departments. Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon Basin. It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by ...
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  • 1. Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos Concepcion
    A Jesuit reduction was a type of settlement for indigenous people in North and South America established by the Jesuit Order from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The Spanish and Portuguese Empires adopted a strategy of gathering native populations into communities called Indian reductions and Portuguese: redução . The objectives of the reductions were to organize and exploit the labor of the native indigenous inhabitants while also imparting Christianity and European culture. Secular as well as religious authorities created reductions. The Jesuit reductions, also called missions, were most extensive and successful in an area straddling the borders of present-day Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina amongst the Guarani peoples. These missions are often called collectively the Rio de la Plata m...
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