Okinawa_Uno

Okinawa Uno

Okinawa Uno

City in Bolivia


Okinawa Uno, also called Colonia Okinawa or simply Okinawa, is a small city and municipality of Bolivia, located in Ignacio Warnes Province in Santa Cruz Department. The town is found 146 km northeast of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, between the Río Grande to the east and the Pailón River to the west. The municipality has a population of 12,482 inhabitants, according to the 2012 Bolivian census.[1]

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History

The town was established by Okinawan immigrants after the end of the Second World War, and during its peak in the mid-1960s consisted of 565 families and over 3,000 Okinawans in total.[2][3][4]

Demography

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See also


References

  1. "Listado de Comunidades" (in Spanish). National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia. 2014. Retrieved 12 Jan 2023.
  2. Mar 2014, Akemi Kikumura Yano / 14. "Bolivia - Migration Historical Overview". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved 2023-01-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. "Okinawa, Bolivia". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  4. "Okinawa Uno" (in Spanish). Instituto Cruceño de Estadística.

Sources

  • Miyahira, Katsuyuki; Petrucci, Peter R. (2015). "Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora". In Heinrich, Patrick; Miyara, Shinsho; Shimoji, Michinori (eds.). Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 553–573. doi:10.1515/9781614511151.553. ISBN 9781614511618.
  • Suzuki, Taku (2010). Embodying belonging: racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISBN 9780824833442. JSTOR j.ctt6wqxfx.

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