San Ignacio de Moxos is a town in the Beni Department

Beni Department

Beni, sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second largest department in the country , covering 213,564 square kilometers , and it was created by supreme decree on November 18, 1842 during the administration of General José...

 of northern Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

.

Location

San Ignacio is the capital of the Moxos Province

Moxos Province

Moxos is a province in the Beni Department, Bolivia. It is named after the Moxos savanna.The province consists of one municipality, San Ignacio de Moxos Municipality, which is identical to the province...

 and is situated at an elevation of 144 m above sea level at Laguna Isiboro, a lake of 20 km² west of the town. San Ignacio is located 100 km south-west of Trinidad

Trinidad, Bolivia

Trinidad, officially La Santísima Trinidad , is a city in Bolivia, capital of the department of Beni. The population is 130,000 ....

, the department's capital.

Population

The town population has risen from 4,832 (census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 1992) to 9,064 (census 2001) and 14,215 (2008 estimate).

Government

The current mayor of San Ignacio de Moxos is Basilio Nolvani Nojune (of the MAS-IPSP party), who was elected in the 4 April 2010 elections and took office in late May 2010.

Date Began	Date Ended	Governor	Party	Notes
Jan 2005	2006	Sixto Vejarano Congo	CPEM-B	Former President, Subcentral of TIMI
8 Aug 2006		Elizabeth Zelada	PODEMOS Social and Democratic Power Podemos is the name of a right-of-center, pro-business Bolivian political party. It is a pseudo-acronym standing for 'Poder Democrático y Social' , but the word also means "We can."-Nationalist Democratic Action:...	Came to power after no-confidence vote by the Council in Vejerano
30 May 2010		Basilio Nolvani Nojune	MAS-IPSP	Won 51.5% in April election Bolivian regional election, 2010 The 2010 Bolivian regional elections were held on 4 April 2010. Departmental and municipal authorities were elected by an electorate of approximately 5 million people...

External links

• Detailed map of Moxos Province