The Chiquitania receives its name from the native inhabitants of this area, the chiquitos or chiquitanos. In this place, Jesuit reductions were settled in the second half of the XVII century (from 1691 until 1760).
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They remain in time as an extraordinary legacy because they are the only Jesuit missions in South America that were not destroyed after the Jesuits were expulsed from the Spanish colonies. They are not ruins but villages full of life, with people who still go to mass in the same majestic churches or enjoy the same baroque music concerts, in the same way, they used to do when the Jesuits ruled these missions three centuries ago.
The Chilean Altiplano is part of a high plateau shared by Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.
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