El Cariño Colony (Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia)
El Cariño (also called Villa Cariño) was a Mennonite colony founded in 1998 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 was comprised of 5,400 hectares. The colonists came primarily from Las Piedras 1 (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 |
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| Date Published | June 2023 |
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