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Exaltación (or Exaltation of the Holy Cross) is a town in Yacuma Province in the Beni Department of northern Bolivia.[1]

History

The Jesuit mission of Exaltación was founded in 1709.[2] Cayubaba Indians resided at the mission.[3]

References

  1. ^ Municipalities of Bolivia at www.editorialox.com
  2. ^ Block, David (1994). Mission culture on the upper Amazon: native tradition, Jesuit enterprise, and secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1232-1..
  3. ^ Meireles, Denise Maldi. 1989. Guardiães da fronteira: Rio Guaporé, século XVIII. Petrópolis: Vozes. ISBN 85-326-0017-4.

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