Moxos Province
Encyclopedia
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
:
Province
A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...
in the Beni Department
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 , covering 213,564 square kilometers , and it was created by supreme decree on November 18, 1842 during the administration of General José...
, Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
. It is named after the Moxos savanna.
The province consists of one municipality
Municipalities of Bolivia
Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...
, San Ignacio de Moxos Municipality, which is identical to the province. The province is divided into three cantons
Cantons of Bolivia
||On the level below municipalities, Bolivia is divided into cantons ....
:
- San Francisco Canton - 2,684 inhabitants (2001)
- San Ignacio Canton - 17,387 inhabitants
- San Lorenzo Canton - 1,572 inhabitants
See also
- Moxos peopleMoxos peopleThe Moxos, also known as the Mojos, are an indigenous people living around the head-waters of the Madeira River in northern Bolivia, particularly on both banks of the Mamore River. They submitted to Inca domination, but in 1564 gallantly repulsed the Spaniards. A century later, however, the Jesuits...
- Moxos languageMoxos languageMojos are a pair of Maipurean languages spoken by the Moxos people of Northeastern Bolivia. The two Mojo 'dialects', Trinitario and Ignaciano, are as distinct from one another as they are from neighboring Maipurean languages.-Mojos:...
- Villa Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos HighwayVilla Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos HighwayThe 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 and San Ignacio de Moxos . It would provide the first direct highway link between the two departments...