Magdalena

Magdalena is a metropolis and municipality, capital of the province of Itenez inside the branch of Beni, Bolivia. The municipal seat is the town of the identical name, also provincial capital. On July 22, 1720, the Jesuit Father Gabriel Ruiz founded at the banks of the Itonamas River, the city of Nuestra Señora de los angeles Magdalena, with the Itonama tribes that lived on the banks of the river.

For greater than half a century, that is, until its expulsion in 1776, the populace was governed by means of clergymen, reaching by way of the give up of the seventeenth century greater than 6,000 inhabitants. The Jesuits set up a theocratic and paternal government, in which the Indians sowed and harvested for the community, even as the caciques dispensed the provisions in line with the variety of the circle of relatives nucleus. By ideally suited decree it changed into given the rank of metropolis, becoming the capital of the Province of Itenez. It comprised a sizable place, south of the river of this call, which Brazilians name Guapore and that is the arcifinio boundary between Bolivia and Brazil.