San José de Chiquitos

San José de Chiquitos, or simply San José, is the capital of in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. It is known as part of the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos, which is declared in 1990 a World Heritage Site, as a former Jesuit Reduction.
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  • Type: City with 12,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Bolivia
  • Also known as: San José” and “San Jose de Chiquitos

Places of Interest

Highlights include San José de Chiquitos Airport.

Aerodrome
Spanish: Aeropuerto San José de Chiquitos, is an airport serving the town of San José de Chiquitos in the Santa Cruz Department of . The runway is on the north edge of the town.

San José de Chiquitos

Latitude
-17.8454° or 17° 50′ 44″ south
Longitude
-60.7422° or 60° 44′ 32″ west
Population
12,500
Elevation
301 metres (988 feet)
Inception
1697
IATA airport code
SJS
United Nations Location Code
BO SJS
Open location code
57JX5735+R4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 795493542
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3905542
Wiki­data ID
Q2143101
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“San José de Chiquitos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: سان خوسيه دي تشيكيتوس
  • Asturian: San José de Chiquitos
  • Bengali: সান হোসে দে চিকিতোস
  • Catalan: San José de Chiquitos
  • Cebuano: San José de Chiquitos
  • Chinese: 圣何塞-德奇基托斯
  • Chinese: 聖何塞-德奇基托斯
  • Chinese: 聖何塞德奇基托斯
  • Danish: San José de Chiquitos
  • Dutch: San José de Chiquitos
  • Egyptian Arabic: سان خوسيه دى تشيكيتوس
  • Finnish: San José de Chiquitos
  • French: San Jose de Chiquitos
  • French: San José de Chiquitos
  • French: San José
  • German: San José de Chiquitos
  • German: San José
  • Greek: Σαν Χοσέ ντε Τσικουίτος
  • Gujarati: સાન જોસ ડે ચિક્વિટોસ
  • Hindi: सैन होसे दे चिकीटोज़
  • Indonesian: San José de Chiquitos
  • Italian: San José de Chiquitos
  • Japanese: サン・ホセ・デ・チキトス
  • Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಜೋಸ್ ಡಿ ಚುಕ್ವಿಟೋಸ್
  • Korean: 산 호세 데 치키토스
  • Latvian: Sanhosē de Čikitos
  • Lithuanian: San Chosė de Čikitosas
  • Malay: San Jose de Chiquitos
  • Marathi: सॅन होझ डी चिक्तिओस
  • Norwegian Bokmål: San Jose de Chiquitos
  • Persian: سن خوزه د چیکیتوس
  • Polish: San José de Chiquitos
  • Portuguese: San José de Chiquitos
  • Quechua: San José Chikitus
  • Quechua: San José Chiquitosmanta
  • Quechua: San José de Chiquitos
  • Russian: Сан-Хосе-де-Чикитос
  • Sinhala: සැන් ජොසේ ඩි චිකිටෝස්
  • Spanish: San Jose de Chiquitos
  • Spanish: San José de Chiquitos
  • Spanish: San Jose
  • Spanish: San José
  • Swedish: San José de Chiquitos
  • Tamil: சான் ஜோஸ் டே சிகுய்ட்டோஸ்
  • Telugu: శాన్ జోస్ డి చికిటోస్
  • Thai: ซานโฆเซเดชิกิโตส
  • Tibetan: སན་ཧོ་སེ་དེ་ཅི་ཁི་ཏོ་སི་
  • Turkish: San José de Chiquitos
  • Ukrainian: Сан-Хосе-де-Чікіотос
  • Ukrainian: Сан-Хосе-де-Чікітос
  • Urdu: سن جوسی دے چیقویتوس
  • Vietnamese: San José de Chiquitos
  • Waray (Philippines): San José de Chiquitos

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “San José de Chiquitos”. Photo: Geoffrey Groesbeck, CC BY-SA 3.0.