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*In 1963, new settlements were founded where Mennonites '''from Paraguay and Canada lived together'''. | *In 1963, new settlements were founded where Mennonites '''from Paraguay and Canada lived together'''. | ||
*In 1967, '''Mennonites from Mexico and from their daughter colonies in Belize began to settle in the Santa Cruz Department'''. '''Las Piedras colony''', founded 1968, was the first colony founded exclusively by Mennonites from Canada. Most settlers in Bolivia were traditional Mennonites who wanted to separate themselves more from "the world". '''Altogether there were about 17,500 Mennonites living in 16 colonies in Bolivia by 1986, of whom nearly 15,000 were Old Colony Mennonites and 2,500 Bergthal or Sommerfeld Mennonites.''' | *In 1967, '''Mennonites from Mexico and from their daughter colonies in Belize began to settle in the Santa Cruz Department'''. '''Las Piedras colony''', founded 1968, was the first colony founded exclusively by Mennonites from Canada. Most settlers in Bolivia were traditional Mennonites who wanted to separate themselves more from "the world". '''Altogether there were about 17,500 Mennonites living in 16 colonies in Bolivia by 1986, of whom nearly 15,000 were Old Colony Mennonites and 2,500 Bergthal or Sommerfeld Mennonites.''' | ||
*In 1995, there were a total of '''25 Mennonite colonies in Bolivia with a total population of 28,567'''. The most populous ones were Riva Palacios (5,488), Swift Current (2,602), Nueva Esperanza (2,455), Valle Esperanza (2,214) and Santa Rita (1,748). | |||
*In 2002, there were '''40 Mennonite colonies with a population of about 38,000 people'''. | |||
*The total population was '''estimated at 60,000 in 2010.'''<ref>"Mennonites in Bolivia", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites_in_Bolivia. accessed 16 May 2021.</ref> | |||
===Emigration=== | ===Emigration=== | ||