Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia Genealogy

Guide to Santa Cruz Department family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.



History

 * Santa Cruz is one of the nine departments that make up the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Its capital is Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
 * The department of Santa Cruz was created on January 23, 1826.
 * It is the first most populated department of the Plurinational State of Bolivia that displaces the Department of La Paz in 2012.
 * It occupies one third (33.74%) of the current Bolivian territory. It is the sixth largest subnational entity in South America and throughout Latin America, after five Brazilian states (Amazonas, Pará, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais and Bahia) and is the largest in the Andean Community.
 * The Santa Cruz department has a population of approximately 3,078,000 people.

Online Records

 * 1566-1996 - at FamilySearch — index and images