Moxos is a
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
in the
Beni Department
Beni (), sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country (after Santa Cruz), covering 213,564 square kilometers (82,458 sq mi), and it was cre ...
,
Bolivia
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. It is named after the
Moxos savanna
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 portio ...
.
The province consists of one
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
, San Ignacio de Moxos Municipality, which is identical to the province. The province is divided into three
cantons
A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, t ...
:
* San Francisco Canton - 2,684 inhabitants ''(2001)''
* San Ignacio Canton - 17,387 inhabitants
* San Lorenzo Canton - 1,572 inhabitants
Places of interest
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Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory
Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory (''Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Secure,'' TIPNIS) is a protected area and Native Community Land in Bolivia situated between the north of the Cochabamba Department and t ...
See also
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Llanos de Moxos
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 portio ...
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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, sav ...
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Moxos people 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 ...
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Moxos language
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 ...
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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
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