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Chiquitano
Indigenous people of Bolivia, with a small number also living in Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Chiquitano or Chiquitos are an indigenous people of Bolivia, with a small number also living in Brazil. The Chiquitano primarily live in the Chiquitania tropical savanna of Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, with a small number also living in Beni Department and in Mato Grosso, Brazil. In the 2012 census, self-identified Chiquitanos made up 1.45% of the total Bolivian population or 145,653 people, the largest number of any lowland ethnic group.[3] A relatively small proportion of Bolivian Chiquitanos speak the Chiquitano language. Many reported to the census that they neither speak the language nor learned it as children.[4] The Chiquitano ethnicity emerged among socially and linguistically diverse populations required to speak a common language by the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos.[5]
![]() Drawing of typical Chiquitano dress, by Alcide d'Orbigny, 1831 | |
Total population | |
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88,358 (2012)[1] | |
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Languages | |
Chiquitano, Spanish, Portuguese[2] | |
Religion | |
Traditional tribal religion, Christianity[2] |