Bauré

The Bauré were an Arawakan-speaking people of the Moxos lowlands in what is now Bolivia. Their communities inhabited the region long before Jesuit missions were established there.

Around 1690 Jesuits led by Cipriano Barace contacted the Bauré and brought communities into mission settlements. After earlier attempts failed, Lorenzo Legarda established Baures in 1708. The Bauré kept their own language alongside the mission language; in 1788 their chief Gabriel Ojeari moved the San Joaquín mission to the Machupo River amid the threat of Portuguese attacks.