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Chiquitos logo #21000 –{For|the Bolivian province|Chiquitos Province} Chiquitos means `little ones` in Spanish. The Spanish Conquistadores chose this name for the people living in the rain savannas of what is now the eastern parts of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia, when they found the small doors of the Indian huts in the region. Today, this area is called th.....
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Chiquitos

Chiquitos logo #21217Chiquitos was a collective name for a large group of South American aborigines in Bolivia. They were roughly forty tribes, grouped into seven divisions: Tapacuraca, Napeca, Paunaca, Paiconeca, Quitemoca, Zuracariguia and Monococa. They were described in 1905 as a merry, light-hearted people given to singing and dancing and cultivating white and yel...
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