Santiago de Chiquitos

Santiago de Chiquitos is a town in the eastern Bolivia, Santa Cruz department.

Understand
Santiago de Chiquitos is jesuit mission town in a perfect nature setting. While its church is not under UNESCO protection, its nature makes visiting this town very pleasing. The local community is very active, respects the nature here and resists any government or private effort to exploit it for minerals and other richnesses. This respectful approach of the local community attracted the eyes and the hearts of somebody in European Union leading UE to finance paving the road from Roboré to Santiago.

Get in
There are bus (at the daytime) and taxi (i.e. Taxi Wilson, tel. 71044523, Bs90) connections from Roboré.

By foot
Santiago is a small town to walk on foot.

Eat
Café Churapa half a block from the main square serves breakfast which is a little expensive (Bs25), but big. They also serve lunch and dinner.

Go next
Return back to Roboré (i.e. the way you came in) and continue west (Santa Cruz, Jesuit Missions) or east (Puerto Quijarro, Brazil) from there. A night bus from Roboré to Santa Cruz (there are frequent buses on this route) may cost you Bs50.