Guanay

Guanay lies in the forested valleys of the eastern Andes, near the meeting of the Tipuani and Mapiri rivers. Their waters join the Kaka, which flows towards the Amazon basin. The river gravels of the Tipuani country contain gold, sought since Inca times and worked during the colonial period. In the early nineteenth century, Franciscan missionaries established a reduction at Guanay, bringing a religious settlement to this river junction.