Atlas Obscura
Convento de Santa Rosa de Ocopa in Peru
In 1725 the Franciscans founded the Santa Rosa convent as a school for missionaries with a focus on converting the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. At the height of its influence around 1800 the convent served over 70 parishes and missions over a vast swath of South America, and practically every mission into the Peruvian Amazon started from the school. In 1824 Simon Bolivar took the school, c…
Missions into Peruvian Amazon started here