Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: COCHABAMBA

The department of Cochabamba is essentially mountainous since it is crossed by the Eastern branch of the Mountain range of the $andes. Located to the center of Bolivia, it is located to 2558 meters of altitude above sea level. Its capital is the city of Cochabamba.

It has an extension of 55,631 km2s; their limits are: to the north with the Beni, the south with Potosí and Chuquisaca; to the east with Santa Cruz and the west with La Paz and Oruro. The department of Cochabamba has a population of 1.110.205 inhabitants.

Account in addition with several valleys located to different altitudes above sea level, being most important those of Cochabamba, Removed, the Valley High and the one of Cliza. Another geographic zone of much importance is the one of considered Chapare one of the five regions with greater pluvial precipitation of the world, with indices that surpass 5.000mm to the year, humidity that favors the presence of impenetrable forests.

The climate of the department of Cochabamba varies with the altitude; cold in the eternal snow regions of the mountain range; tempering in valleys of the South flank of the mountain range, cold to tempering in the region of the mount eyebrow of the North flank of the mountain range and tempering to warm in the Yungas of the north.

The Southeastern zone, the one of smaller pluvial precipitation of the department, is warm dry, characterized by a vegetation of cactus and plants xerophilous.

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: INTEREST SITES

National park Tunari:
It includes part of the mountainous area of the Tunari, located to the north of the city of Cochabamba. The lifted tip more has 5.020m.

Isiboro-Securé park:
He is one of most important of the country.

Incachaca:
Located to 80 km of the city of Cochabamba in the route of the highway towards Santa Cruz. It is a tropical zone in that beautiful waterfalls can be observed and brooks which they worked the stone, besides an ebullient vegetation and places adapted for the sport fishing.

Chapare:
This subtropical and tropical climate province of beautiful landscapes, is one of most beautiful of Bolivia. This province is characterized by the ebullient vegetation, the variety of birds with multicoloured plumages, streams and the brooks that end at the Amazon.

Mizque:
To the south-east of the city of Cochabamba warm droughts are abren to a series of valleys more and than those of the center of the department. Among them they emphasize those of Mizque and Aiquile, where the life of the man is developed placid and calm. Both populations were founded by the Spaniards who found propitious field not only for the rest but to cubrier valleys with see vine shoots he says that the best wines produced in American earth were obtained from the vineyards of Mizque.

The valley of Mizque is cruzado by the mighty river of its same name whose lukewarm waters are refuge to mitigate the heat and in that the fishermen find a variety of fish of flavorful meat. In the near forests and pajonales mount pigs dwell, red deers, turkey hens, torcazas and partridges.

The valley of Cochabamba: The valley of Cochabamba is one of food the producing majors derived from agriculture whereupon it counts the country, since this region lives an eternal spring due to its climate and precipitations. It is here where the town of Quillacollo is located that tends to become city, one of his more visited constructions is the Quillacollo temple, of the time of the colony.


Morochata:
In order to accede to this region one is due to ascend to the mountain range of the Tunari, and one is to five hours of trip from the city of Cochabamba; the foot of the riscos they see Lagos (where trout can be fished and be seen Canadian geese, wild, flamenco ducks, partridges vizcachas, condors…).

Pre-Columbian ruins:
The department of Cochabamba is full of incaicas and preincaicas ruins. Nowadays some rest in ceramics or some utensils can be found that belonged to the old inhabitants. We can mention the ruins of Inkallajta; to the north of the provinces It will plate and Independence, ruins of the Choro, Tables, Peach tree, Walta, the Three Tetillas, to the north the incaicas ruins of Komerkocha (Green lagoon), to the Southeast of the capital are the ruins of Pocona.

Thermal water spas:
Thermal water spas the mineralized, are located mainly in the skirts of the mountain range of the Tunari and generally in the Andean loosening of “the Horseshoe”. One affirms that these have curative properties and that they heal hepatic diseases, renal and rheumatic.

They emphasize:
Lurini, the Cabin of Putina and Cayacayani.