Bolivia contains the historic Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos.
The Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos are a group of former mission settlements in eastern Bolivia. Jesuit priests founded them between the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among Indigenous communities in the Chiquitania region. After the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish territories in 1767, the missions continued under other forms of administration.
Six surviving mission churches were inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990. Their architecture combines European Baroque traditions with local materials, craftsmanship, and artistic styles. Several churches were restored in the twentieth century, helping preserve both the buildings and the region’s musical heritage.
They are sometimes confused with the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Argentina, which belong to a different but related network of reductions. The Chiquitos missions are specifically in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz Department, east of the Andes.