Nicolás Armentia Ugarte


Nicolás Armentia Ugarte was a Spanish Franciscan Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia, appointed 22 October 1901.

Life

Before coming to South America, he spent several years in France, and had studied science. As a missionary he was under the guidance of Father Rafael Sans, pioneer in the forests and on the river courses of the Beni region.
The indigenous people there were not numerous, but often hostile, and had for years been decimated by smallpox. To reach them he cut his way through from one abandoned hamlet to another, exposed to hardship from hunger, climate, and disease. He taught and preached wherever and whenever he fell in with Indians, establishing and re-establishing missions; in this way he gathered materials for the geography, natural history, and anthropology of these regions.
era un escritor una de sus primeras obras fue TACANA la cual fue publicada en La Paz -Bolivia

Works

His principal publications are: