San Javier, Ñuflo de Chávez

San Javier
Mission church of San Javier
San Javier
Coordinates: 16.2748°S 62.5072°W / -16.2748; -62.5072
Country	Bolivia
Department	Santa Cruz Department
Province	Ñuflo de Chávez Province
Municipality	San Javier Municipality
Population  (2001)
• Total	6,048
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)

San Javier (San Francisco Xavier de los Piñocas or San Xavier) is the seat of San Javier Municipality in Ñuflo de Chávez Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. The mission of San Javier is known as part of the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos, declared in 1990 a World Heritage Site,^[1] as a former Jesuit Reduction.

History

In 1691, the mission of San Francisco Xavier was founded by Jesuit missionary José de Arce. The mission hosted the Piñoca Indians. In 1696, due to the incursion of Paulistas from Brazil, the mission was relocated to the San Miguel River. It was relocated again in 1698, this time closer to Santa Cruz, due to another Paulista incursion. In 1708, Spanish from Santa Cruz captured many Indians, and the mission had to be relocated away from Santa Cruz.^[2][3]

Languages

The Piñoco dialect of Chiquitano, now extinct, was spoken in San Javier.^[4]

Today, Camba Spanish, which has many words from Piñoco, is spoken in San Javier.^[5]

Climate

Climate data for San Javier, Ñuflo de Chávez, elevation 538 m (1,765 ft)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	29.3 (84.7)	28.9 (84.0)	29.1 (84.4)	28.2 (82.8)	26.2 (79.2)	25.6 (78.1)	26.2 (79.2)	28.5 (83.3)	29.6 (85.3)	30.6 (87.1)	29.9 (85.8)	29.3 (84.7)	28.5 (83.2)
Daily mean °C (°F)	24.9 (76.8)	24.5 (76.1)	24.5 (76.1)	23.5 (74.3)	21.4 (70.5)	20.5 (68.9)	20.2 (68.4)	22.2 (72.0)	23.5 (74.3)	25.1 (77.2)	25.0 (77.0)	24.9 (76.8)	23.3 (74.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	20.6 (69.1)	20.1 (68.2)	19.8 (67.6)	18.7 (65.7)	16.7 (62.1)	15.3 (59.5)	14.3 (57.7)	15.6 (60.1)	17.4 (63.3)	19.6 (67.3)	20.1 (68.2)	20.5 (68.9)	18.2 (64.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	193.6 (7.62)	169.2 (6.66)	148.0 (5.83)	91.0 (3.58)	69.7 (2.74)	45.1 (1.78)	26.5 (1.04)	34.7 (1.37)	60.8 (2.39)	90.2 (3.55)	132.4 (5.21)	164.9 (6.49)	1,226.1 (48.26)
Average precipitation days	12.7	11.5	10.4	6.6	5.7	3.6	2.5	2.6	3.8	5.9	8.3	11.0	84.6
Average relative humidity (%)	82.2	82.8	82.2	80.9	80.4	78.4	71.1	65.6	65.2	70.5	76.2	81.5	76.4
Source: Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología de Bolivia[6][7]

See also

• List of Jesuit sites
• List of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos

References

1. World Heritage Site: Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
2. Lasso Varela, Isidro José (2008-06-26). "Influencias del cristianismo entre los Chiquitanos desde la llegada de los Españoles hasta la expulsión de los Jesuitas" (in Spanish). Departamento de Historia Moderna, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UNED. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
3. Groesbeck, Geoffrey A. P. (2008). "A Brief History of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos (eastern Bolivia)". Colonialvoyage. Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
4. Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
5. Nikulin, Andrey (2020). "Contacto de lenguas en la Chiquitanía". Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas. 2 (2): 5–30. doi:10.18468/rbli.2019v2n2.p05-30. S2CID 225674786.
6. "Base de datos Sistema Meteorológico–SISMET" (in Spanish). Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología de Bolivia. Archived from the original on 7 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
7. "índices climáticos para 149 estaciones meteorológicas en Bolivia" (in Spanish). Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología de Bolivia. Retrieved 15 June 2024.

External links

• World-Gazetteer.com / Population at archive.today (archived 2012-12-05)
• Map of Ñuflo de Chávez Province
• San Javier: Description of Jesuit mission with pictures and information