San Juan de Taperas
San Juan de Taperas is located in Bolivia
San Juan de Taperas
San Juan de Taperas
Coordinates: 17°54′S 60°22′W / 17.900°S 60.367°W / -17.900; -60.367
Country Bolivia
Department Santa Cruz Department
ProvinceChiquitos Province
MunicipalitySan José de Chiquitos Municipality
Elevation
1,224 ft (373 m)
Population
 (2012)
 • Total832
Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

San Juan de Taperas is a village in San José de Chiquitos Municipality in Chiquitos Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. The ruins of the mission of San Juan Bautista, one of the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos,[1] lie near the village. Since only the ruins of a stone tower survive near the present village of San Juan de Taperas, San Juan Bautista is not one of the six Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

San Juan de Taperas has a population of 832 as of the 2012 census.

History

The Jesuit mission of San Juan Bautista was initially founded in 1699 by the Jesuit missionaries Juan Bautista Zea and Juan Patricio Fernández after the mission of San José had grown too big. San Juan Bautista mission was inhabited by the indigenous Subereca, Peta, and Piñoca tribes. The mission was closed in 1705 due to an epidemic. The reduction would have needed to be relocated, but the Indians refused; hence the mission was closed. In 1713, the mission reopened in a new location.[2][3]

Languages

The Tao (Yúnkarirsh) dialect of Chiquitano was spoken in San Juan.[4]

Today, Camba Spanish, which has many words from Chiquitano, is spoken in San Juan de Taperas.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ World Heritage Site: Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
  2. ^ Lasso Varela, Isidro José (2008-06-26). "Influencias del cristianismo entre los Chiquitanos desde la llegada de los Españoles hasta la expulsión de los Jesuitas" (in Spanish). Departamento de Historia Moderna, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UNED. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  3. ^ Groesbeck, Geoffrey A. P. (2008). "A Brief History of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos (eastern Bolivia)". Colonialvoyage. Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
  4. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. pp. 60.
  5. ^ Nikulin, Andrey (2020). "Contacto de lenguas en la Chiquitanía". Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas. 2 (2): 5–30. doi:10.18468/rbli.2019v2n2.p05-30. S2CID 225674786.
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