San Ignacio de Zamucos

San Ignacio de Zamucos
San Ignacio de Zamucos
Coordinates: 19°10′S60°38′W / 19.167°S 60.633°W / -19.167; -60.633 (San Ignacio de Zamucos)
Country	Bolivia
Department	Santa Cruz Department
Province	Cordillera Province
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)

San Ignacio de Zamucos or San Ignacio was a Jesuit mission in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia that was founded in 1724 and abandoned in 1745. ^[1] The inhabitants of the mission were the Zamucoan-speaking Ayoreo.

Location

The ruins of San Ignacio de Zamucos are located in the southeastern end of the Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park, near San Ignacio in Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department. It is located a few kilometers from the Bolivia-Paraguay border and Cerro San Miguel (or "Cerro de Irala").

History

In 1716, an initial attempt was made at establishing a mission, but the mission was not actually established until 1724. ^{[2] [3]}

In 1724, San Ignacio de Zamucos was founded in indigenous Ayoreo ("zamucos ugaraños") territory by the Jesuit missionary Agustín Castañares and the friar Ignacio Chomé, as well as Felipe Suárez and Juan Bautista Zea. However, when Castañares died and the mission was attacked, it was abandoned in 1745. Most of the mission's inhabitants then went on to form part of the population of San Ignacio de Velasco. ^{[4] [5]}

See also

• List of Jesuit sites
• List of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos

References

1. "Patrimonio de la Humanidad" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on November 5, 2016. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
2. Lasso Varela, Isidro José (2008-06-26). "Influencias del cristianismo entre los Chiquitanos desde la llegada de los Españoles hasta la expulsión de los Jesuitas" (in Spanish). Departamento de Historia Moderna, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UNED. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
3. Groesbeck, Geoffrey A. P. (2008). "A Brief History of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos (eastern Bolivia)". Colonialvoyage. Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
4. Roth, Hans. "Events that happened at that time". Chiquitos: Misiones Jesuíticas. Retrieved 2009-01-21.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
5. Jackson, Robert H. "La raza y la definición de la identidad del "Indio" en las fronteras de la América española Colonial". Revista de Estudios Sociales (26). ISSN   0123-885X . Retrieved 2009-01-21.