Österreich Colony (Loreto Department, Peru)

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Österreich (also called Tierra Blanca) was a Mennonite colony founded in 2017 in the Loreto Department of Peru. The colony comprised of a land area of 3,400 hectares. The colonists came primarily from El Cerro (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.


Author(s) Samuel Boucher
Date Published June 2023

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Boucher, Samuel. "Österreich Colony (Loreto Department, Peru)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. June 2023. Web. 22 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=%C3%96sterreich_Colony_(Loreto_Department,_Peru)&oldid=176189.

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Boucher, Samuel. (June 2023). Österreich Colony (Loreto Department, Peru). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=%C3%96sterreich_Colony_(Loreto_Department,_Peru)&oldid=176189.



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