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Valle de la Merced was a Mennonite colony founded in 2012 in the Santa Cruz Department in [[Bolivia]]. In 2020 the population of the colony was estimated at approximately 101 to 500 individuals and the land area comprised of 23,700 hectares.  The colonists came primarily from Del Norte (Bolivia).

= Bibliography =
Le Polain de Waroux, Yann, Janice Neumann, Anna O’Driscoll and Kerstin Schreiber. “Pious pioneers: the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America.” ''Journal of Land Use Science'' 16, no. 1 (2021):  1-17.

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[[Category:Mennonite Settlements in Bolivia]]