Moxos (other)
Moxos may refer to: * Moxos plains, or ''Llanos de Moxos'', a region of Bolivia * Moxos Province, Bolivia * Moxo people, an indigenous people of Bolivia * Llanos de Moxos (archaeology) * Jesuit Missions of Moxos * Moxoene Moxoene or Mokk' ( hy, Մոկք, translit=Mokkʿ, ku, Miks) was a territory of Kingdom of Armenia and later Sasanian Armenia, located east of Arzanene from south of Lake Van to north of Bohtan river. The territory was ruled by a local dynasty. ...

Moxos Plains
The Beni savanna, also known as the Llanos de Moxos or Moxos plains, is a tropical savanna ecoregion of the Beni Department of northern Bolivia. Setting The Beni savanna covers an area of in the lowlands of northern Bolivia, with small portions in neighboring Brazil and Peru. Most of the Llanos de Moxos lies within the departments of El Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, and Santa Cruz. The Llanos de Moxos occupies the southwestern corner of the Amazon basin, and the region is crossed by numerous rivers that drain the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains. The low relief of the savannas, coupled with wet season rains and snowmelt from the Andes, cause up to half the land to flood seasonally. The Beni savanna is surrounded by tropical moist forests; the Southwestern Amazonian moist forests to the north, west, and south, and the Madeira-Tapajós moist forests to the east. Climate The climate of the Beni savanna is tropical, with pronounced wet and dry seasons. The wet seaso ...
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Moxos Province
Moxos is a province in the Beni Department, Bolivia. It is named after the Moxos savanna. The province consists of one municipality, San Ignacio de Moxos Municipality, which is identical to the province. The province is divided into three cantons: * San Francisco Canton - 2,684 inhabitants ''(2001)'' * San Ignacio Canton - 17,387 inhabitants * San Lorenzo Canton - 1,572 inhabitants Places of interest * Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory See also * Llanos de Moxos * Llanos de Moxos (archaeology) * Moxos people * Moxos language *Villa Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos Highway The Villa Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos Highway, also known as the Cochabamba–Beni Highway is a road project in Bolivia connecting the towns of Villa Tunari (in Cochabamba Department) and San Ignacio de Moxos (in Beni Department). It would p ... External links San Ignacio de Moxos Municipality (= Moxos Province): population data and map Provinces of Beni Department {{Be ...
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Moxo People
Moxo may refer to: * Moxo people, an ethnic group of Bolivia * Moxo languages Moxo (also known as ''Mojo'', pronounced 'Moho') is any of the Arawakan languages spoken by the Moxo people of the Llanos de Moxos in northeastern Bolivia. The two extant languages of the Moxo people, ''Trinitario'' and ''Ignaciano'', are as d ..., the languages spoken by them See also * Moxos (other) * Moho (other) * Mojo (other) * Mocho (other) {{Disambiguation ...
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Llanos De Moxos (archaeology)
The Llanos (Spanish ''Los Llanos'', "The Plains"; ) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome. Geography The Llanos occupy a lowland that extends mostly east and west. The Llanos are bounded on the west and northwest by the Andes, and on the north by the Venezuelan Coastal Range. The Guiana Highlands are to the southeast, and the Negro-Branco moist forests are to the southwest. To the east the Orinoco wetlands and Orinoco Delta swamp forests occupy the Orinoco Delta. The Llanos' main river is the Orinoco, which runs from west to east through the ecoregion and forms part of the border between Colombia and Venezuela. The Orinoco is the major river system of Venezuela. Climate The ecoregion has a tropical savanna climate that grades into a tropical monsoon climate in the Colombian Llanos. Rainfall is hi ...
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Jesuit Missions Of Moxos
The Jesuit Missions of Moxos are located in the Llanos de Moxos of Beni department in eastern Bolivia. Distinguished by a unique fusion of European and Amerindian cultural influences, the missions were founded as reductions or ''reducciones de indios'' by Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries to convert local tribes to Christianity. History Jesuit priests arriving from Santa Cruz de la Sierra began evangelizing native peoples of the region in the 1670s. They set up a series of missions near the Mamoré River for this purpose beginning with Loreto. The principal mission was established at Trinidad in 1686. List of missions Meireles (1989) lists the following Jesuit missions of Moxos along with their respective ethnic groups (tribes).Meireles, Denise Maldi. 1989. Guardiães da fronteira: Rio Guaporé, século XVIII'. Petrópolis: Vozes. ISBN 85-326-0017-4. Founding dates and a few more additional missions are from Block (1994).. Languages The following indigenous languages ...
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