Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
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Location
Bolivia

Country

Year of Research
1990

Culture
They defined the urban model: the houses of Indians regularly spaced along the three sides of a rectangular square, with the fourth reserved for the church, the collegial church, two workshops, and the schools, and sometimes also for the Casa de la Misericordia (almshouse), which housed widows and abandoned women.