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The early Spaniards found six principal ethnic groups in the Llanos: the Moxo (or Mojo), Movima, Canichana, Cayuvava, Itonama, and Bauré. The names of 26 other groups are known. The Baure were considered by the Spanish to be the most "civilized", followed by the Moxo. The other groups lived in smaller communities and on less favored lands.
Moxo people, an indigenous people of Bolivia; Llanos de Moxos (archaeology) Jesuit Missions of Moxos; Moxoene, or Moxos, an ancient Armenian province
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.
The Mojeños, also known as Moxeños, Moxos, or Mojos, are an indigenous people of Bolivia.They live in south central Beni Department, [2] on both banks of the Mamore River, and on the marshy plains to its west, known as the Llanos de Mojos.
Manuel Córdova-Ríos acquired the name Ino Moxo, a word of the Amazon region which means: jaguar ino, and black moxo. A memorable event occurred a year before he began searching for rubber trees near Iberia. During a trip north to the Río Putumayo, the young Manuel when alone had come upon a black jaguar in the forest. During several fleeting ...
The Llanos de Moxos was the setting for pre-Columbian agriculture, and appears to have been an early center of plant domestication. The inhabitants constructed agricultural earthworks: raised fields, causeways, canals, and about 4700 forested mounds over a 50,000 square kilometer area.
Moxo may refer to: Moxo people, an ethnic group of Bolivia; Moxo languages, the languages spoken by them; Francesc de Moxó (1879–1920), Spanish politician and sports leader; Manuel Córdova-Rios (Ino Moxo), a vegetalista (herbalist) of the upper Amazon; Rafael Larraín Moxó (1813–1892), Chilean politician, farmer, businessman and banker
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