Neu-Bergthal Colony (Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia)
Neu-Bergthal was a Mennonite colony founded in 1986 in the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia. In 2020 the population of the colony was estimated at 501 to 1,000 individuals and the land area comprised of 6,300 hectares. The colonists came primarily from Alt Bergthal (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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