Jesuit Missions of Moxos
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The Jesuit Missions of Moxos are located in the
reductions or reducciones de indios by Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries to convert local tribes to Christianity
.
History
Trinidad in 1686.[1]
List of missions
Meireles (1989) lists the following Jesuit missions of Moxos along with their respective ethnic groups (tribes).[2]: 78–79 Founding dates and a few more additional missions are from Block (1994).[3]: 39
Mission | Founding date | Location | Group |
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Loreto | 1682 | Ibare River, left bank | Mojo |
Trinidad |
1687 | upper Mamoré River, right bank | Mojo |
San Ignacio | 1689 | Tijamuchi River, right bank | Mojo, Rokorono |
San Javier |
1691 | Mamoré River | Mojo |
San Francisco de Borja | 1693 | Rápulo River source | Chimane,[4] Rokorono, Mojo, Movima |
San Pedro | 1697 | Machupo River source | Canichana |
San Luis de Gonzaga | 1698 (abandoned 1758) | Rápulo River | Rokorono, Mojo, Movima |
Santos Reyes | 1710 | upper Beni River | Movima, Maropa |
Exaltación | 1709 | lower Mamoré River | Cayubaba |
Concepción de Baures | 1708 | upper Baures River | Baure, Chapacura, Kitemoka, Napeka |
San Joaquín | 1709 | Baures River | Baure |
Santa Ana | 1719 | Yacuma River | Movima |
San Pablo | 1703 (abandoned 1710) | upper Yacuma River | Movima |
San Simón y Judás | 1744 | San Martín River source | Chapakura, Baure |
San Nicolás | 1740 | San Martín River | Baure |
Desposorios de Mojos | 1723 | Yapacaní River (Rio Grande tributary), near right bank | ? |
Carmen de Mojos | 1794[5] | middle Rio Blanco, left bank | Chapakura, Baure |
San José | 1691 (abandoned 1752) | Apere River, left bank | ? |
San Martín | 1717 | San Simón River/San Martín River confluence | Bauré |
Santa Magdalena | 1720 | Machupo River | Itonama |
San Miguel (1) | 1696 | Baures River | Moré, Baure |
Santa Rosa (1) | 1705 (abandoned 1740) | upper Mamoré River | |
Santa Rosa (2) | 1743 (abandoned 1751) | Guaporé River | Moré |
San Simón | 1746 | Guaporé River | Moré, Aricoroni |
San Miguel (2) | 1725 (abandoned 1762) | Guapore River |
Moré, Aricoroni |
San Juan Bautista | 1710 (abandoned 1718) | eastern savanna | |
Patrocinio | 1730 (abandoned 1741) | upper Mamoré River |
Languages
The following indigenous languages, which make up much of the
Mamoré-Guaporé linguistic area, were historically spoken in the missions.[2][4]: 11 Moxo was the primary lingua franca (Spanish: lengua general) used in the missions.[4]
: 13
- Arawakan languages
- Moxo, spoken by the Mojeños
- Baure, spoken by the Baure people
- Canichana, spoken by the Canichana people
- Movima, spoken by the Movima people
- Cayuvava, spoken by the Cayuvava people
- Itonama, spoken by the Itonama people
- Tsimané, spoken by the Tsimanépeople
- Mure (extinct)
- Chapacuran languages
- Tacanan languages
- Reyesano (or Maropa)
Gallery
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TrinidadCathedral
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Trinidad Cathedral
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San Ignacio de Moxos
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San Ignacio de Moxos
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Magdalena in 1990
See also
- List of Jesuit sites
- List of Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos
- Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos
- Llanos de Moxos (archaeology)
- Mojeños
References
- ISBN 978-0-86091-398-6.
- ^ a b Meireles, Denise Maldi. 1989. Guardiães da fronteira: Rio Guaporé, século XVIII. Petrópolis: Vozes. ISBN 85-326-0017-4.
- ISBN 0-8032-1232-1..
- ^ a b c Crevels, Mily. 2002. Speakers shift and languages die: An account of language death in Amazonian Bolivia. In Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sérgio Meira & Hein van der Voort (eds.), Current Studies on South American Languages [Indigenous Languages of Latin America, 3], p. 9-30. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS).
- ^ Gutiérrez, Ramón; Gutiérrez Viñuales, Rodrigo (2005). "Historia urbana de las reducciones jesuíticas sudamericanas : continuidad, rupturas y cambios (siglos XVII-XX)" (PDF): 77–78. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
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