Loreto, Beni

{{Expand German|topic=geo|date=December 2010|Loreto (Beni)}}

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Loreto is a small municipality in the Beni Department in northern Bolivia, capital of the Marbán Province and Loreto Municipality.[http://umd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/generales/localidad.php?var=80601 Observatorio de la Bolivia Democrática (OBD)]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 2001, Loreto had a population of 843.

History

Loreto was the first of the Jesuit Missions of Moxo to be founded. Loreto Mission was founded in 1682.{{cite book|last=Block|first=David|year=1994|title=Mission culture on the upper Amazon: native tradition, Jesuit enterprise, and secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880|location=Lincoln}publisher=University of Nebraska Press|ISBN=0-8032-1232-1}}.

Languages

Camba Spanish is the primary vernacular lingua franca spoken in the town. Loretano, a Moxo dialect, is the main indigenous language spoken.Danielsen, Swintha (2011). The personal paradigms in Baure and other South Arawakan languages. In Antoine Guillaume; Françoise Rose (eds.). International Journal of American Linguistics 77(4): 495-520.Danielsen, Swintha; Terhart, Lena (2014). Paunaka. In Mily Crevels; Pieter Muysken (eds.). Lenguas de Bolivia, vol. III: Oriente, pp. 221-258. La Paz: Plural Editores.

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