diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 241f60fd3..1f4dd5dd3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Added
 
 - Automatically use `load_url` when providing a URL as geometries to `DataCube.aggregate_spatial()`, `DataCube.mask_polygon()`, etc. ([#104](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-python-client/issues/104), [#457](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-python-client/issues/457))
-- Argument `spatial_extent` in `load_collection` supports type `shapely` and loading geometry from a local path.
+- Argument `spatial_extent` in `load_collection` supports Shapely objects and loading GeoJSON from a local path.
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/openeo/rest/connection.py b/openeo/rest/connection.py
index a1befaa79..77d4fc759 100644
--- a/openeo/rest/connection.py
+++ b/openeo/rest/connection.py
@@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ def load_collection(
             - a path (:py:class:`str` or :py:class:`~pathlib.Path`) to a local, client-side GeoJSON file,
               which will be loaded automatically to get the geometries as GeoJSON construct.
             - a :py:class:`~openeo.api.process.Parameter` instance.
+            - a bounding box dictionary
         :param temporal_extent: limit data to specified temporal interval.
             Typically, just a two-item list or tuple containing start and end date.
             See :ref:`filtering-on-temporal-extent-section` for more details on temporal extent handling and shorthand notation.
diff --git a/openeo/rest/datacube.py b/openeo/rest/datacube.py
index 4629c37d5..7f12dcfb7 100644
--- a/openeo/rest/datacube.py
+++ b/openeo/rest/datacube.py
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ def load_collection(
             - a path (:py:class:`str` or :py:class:`~pathlib.Path`) to a local, client-side GeoJSON file,
               which will be loaded automatically to get the geometries as GeoJSON construct.
             - a :py:class:`~openeo.api.process.Parameter` instance.
+            - a bounding box dictionary
         :param temporal_extent: limit data to specified temporal interval.
             Typically, just a two-item list or tuple containing start and end date.
             See :ref:`filtering-on-temporal-extent-section` for more details on temporal extent handling and shorthand notation.
@@ -192,11 +193,14 @@ def load_collection(
                     "Unexpected parameterized `spatial_extent` in `load_collection`:"
                     f" expected schema with type 'object' but got {spatial_extent.schema!r}."
                 )
-        valid_geojson_types = [
-            "Polygon", "MultiPolygon", "Feature", "FeatureCollection"
-        ]
-        if spatial_extent and not (isinstance(spatial_extent, dict) and spatial_extent.keys() & {"west", "east", "north", "south"}):
-            spatial_extent = _get_geometry_argument(argument=spatial_extent,valid_geojson_types=valid_geojson_types,connection=connection)
+        elif not spatial_extent or (isinstance(spatial_extent, dict) and spatial_extent.keys() & {"west", "east", "north", "south"}):
+            pass
+        else:
+            valid_geojson_types = [
+                "Polygon", "MultiPolygon", "Feature", "FeatureCollection"
+            ]
+            spatial_extent = _get_geometry_argument(argument=spatial_extent, valid_geojson_types=valid_geojson_types,
+                                                    connection=connection)
 
         arguments = {
             'id': collection_id,