Missions: San José de Chiquitos

Things to do

• Stone mission complex
• Parque Santa Cruz la Vieja

What to eat

• Locro de gallinaA thick rice soup with free-range chicken, comforting and typical of the east.
• MajaditoRice cooked with charque or chicken, served with a fried egg and fried plantain. The dish of Santa Cruz and the Beni.
• Cuñapé and pan de arrozLittle cheese breads made with cassava or rice flour, served warm with coffee in the morning.

Also here

• UNESCO Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos

How to get to San José

• Chochís Road (bus, car) · 1 h 30

  Bus towards Roboré or Puerto Quijarro (get off at the junction), or taxi.

• Roboré Road (bus, car) · 2 h 30

  Santa Cruz to Roboré or Puerto Quijarro buses that stop in San José.

• Roboré Train · 3 h 30

  Ferroviaria Oriental train (Santa Cruz to Puerto Quijarro line).

• Santa Cruz Road (bus, car) · 4 h 30

  Frequent buses.

• San Miguel Road (bus, car) · 4 to 6 h

  Infrequent buses, or car.

• Santa Cruz Train · 6 h

  Ferroviaria Oriental train (Santa Cruz to Puerto Quijarro line).

Photos of Missions: San José de Chiquitos

More places in this region

• Missions: San JavierThe first of the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos (UNESCO), with painted wooden churches.
• Missions: ConcepciónThe most beautiful square of the missions, with a restoration workshop and a museum.
• Missions: San Ignacio de VelascoThe hub of the missions circuit, with its lagoon.
• Missions: San Miguel de VelascoA Chiquitano mission with woodcarving workshops that are still very much alive.
• Missions: Santa Ana de VelascoThe most authentic of the Chiquitos missions, with its original organ.
• Missions: San Rafael de VelascoA mission church decorated with mica and painted wood, between San Ignacio and San José.
• Noel Kempff Mercado National ParkA vast and very remote UNESCO park: the Huanchaca plateau and the Arco Iris falls.