Amboro Tours

Jesuit Missions of La Gran Chiquitania

• Itinerary of 2 Days 1 Night

From the City of Santa Cruz

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2 Days 1 Night

1st Day
At 8:00 A.M. we will pick you up to take you to the town of Concepcion located 476 kilometers away (767.74 miles) This trip will be done on a paved road, passing by several towns and villages of people that moved people from the high lands of bolivia to the low lands of Santa Cruz. Also we may see some Mennonites´ colonies.

This trip is crossing an agricultural area, which grows soybean, sunflower, and several types of other grains. There, we can also realize the relentless advance of the agricultural frontier from 30 Kilometers (48.38 Miles) off Santa Cruz.

The trip to Concepcion takes approximately 5 hours. On the way we will stop in San Javier with 12.00 inhabitants and on 542 meters on sea level.

In San Javier, is a town with indigenous background, founded in the year 1691 by the Jesuits.

In this town in company of a guide we will visit its famous Jesuit church and the museum. This guide will tells about how the the work of the jesuits to change the culture of the natives of the chiquitania and others details about it.

Lunch in San Ramon o San Javier San Javier

Dinner and overnight in Concepcion

2nd Day

After breakfast we will start visiting the Museums, and the church and maybe the craft work shops all this with a specialist guide.

This guide will tell us about the work done by the jesuits and about the restauration process

We also may visit some souvenir shops and other places of interest

Concepcion is on 534 meters above sea level and it has around 15.000 inhabitants, largely Chiquitanos´ background. And other tribes gathered here the time of the Jesuits, although there are also people of foreign background.

This town was founded by the Jesuits in the year 1708 with 10 different tribes, each of these tribes then spoke different languages and worship different gods, each of these gods represented the nature.

We need to leave Concepcion towards Santa Cruz about 10:30, so our time lunch is going to be around San Ramon or San Javier. This will depend on how our itinerary is going.

We will reach Santa Cruz about 16:00 hours to bring you to your place.

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