Santa Ana del Yacuma Day in Bolivia

Santa Ana del Yacuma is a city and municipality of Bolivia, capital and most populous city of the province of Yacuma, located in the geographic center of the department of Beni, is considered the cattle capital of the country. It is the fifth most populated municipality of the department after Trinidad, Riberalta, Guayaramerin and San Borja. It is one of the cities with the lowest population growth, although in recent years there has been a higher growth.

Santa Ana del Yacuma was founded on July 26, 1708 by Jesuit Father Fray Baltazar Espinoza, inserted in the heart of the department of Beni. This reduction was founded under the name of San Lorenzo on the banks of the Mamoré River, where today an old Tajibo Cross is located. The Jesuit founder Espinoza was assassinated the following year by the indigenous Movimas, thus disappearing from the list of Jesuit missions. In 1715 the town was moved to the banks of the Rapulo River at its confluence with the Yacuma River, where it was renamed Santa Ana del Yacuma. This move was made by Austrian Father Francisco Xavier Dirhaimb, as recorded in a document in the Moxos and Chiquitos Archives in Sucre.

The original location of Santa Ana was in the area of the Pre-Hispanic Island "Cachichi".