Missions: San Miguel de Velasco

Things to do

• Painted wooden mission church
• Woodcarving workshops
• Village square and local life

What to eat

• Chiquitos cheesesFresh cow's milk cheeses made in the mission villages, with homemade bread.
• Locro de gallinaA thick rice soup with free-range chicken, comforting and typical of the east.

Also here

• UNESCO Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
• Crafts and markets Chiquitos woodcarvingAngels, saints and altarpieces: San Miguel's workshops carry on the carving of the Jesuit missions, and still restore the region's churches.

How to get to San Miguel

• San Rafael Road (bus, car) · 45 min

  Taxi or the occasional micro.

• San Ignacio Road (bus, car) · 1 h (day loop)

  Taxi or day tour (San Miguel, San Rafael and Santa Ana loop).

• San José Road (bus, car) · 4 to 6 h

  Infrequent buses, or car.

Photos of Missions: San Miguel de Velasco

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: 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.
• Missions: San José de ChiquitosThe only stone Jesuit mission, at the foot of the hills.
• Noel Kempff Mercado National ParkA vast and very remote UNESCO park: the Huanchaca plateau and the Arco Iris falls.