Paikoneka

The Paikoneka were among the Indigenous peoples of Chiquitania, the forest and savanna country east of the Bolivian Andes. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Jesuit missionaries established the missions of Chiquitos, bringing people of many local groups together in new settlements. The Paikoneka were among the peoples whose descendants contributed to the Chiquitano population that emerged from this encounter.