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Inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register and on the Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2013, this collection comprises 1,502 musical manuscripts made between the 17th and 19th centuries, created or copied by musicians from the La Plata Cathedral and the Oratorio San Felipe Neri, in the city of La Plata (now Sucre, Bolivia). All sets were acquired in 1980 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNESCO´s Regional Musicology Project, to be kept in the National Archive and Library of Bolivia. Five of these musical works were inscribed in the International Memory of the World Register as joint nominations with other countries.

In recent years, other late 18th and early 19th-century manuscripts have been rescued from the same source and have enriched the initial set. The La Plata Baroque music collection, which combines and contrasts ethnic, cultural and aesthetic blends, offers a dimension with universal characteristics of the European Baroque. In other words, this style allows the baroque style to be defined as a cultural phenomenon that is not limited to Europe. The collection is one of the richest in Hispanic America: it consists of works unique in the world, according to the opinion of expert curators. The significance of this collection transcends local borders as it highlights the American and European composers who worked together to train the musicians of the La Plata Cathedral.