Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: NATIONAL PARK AMBORÓ

The National Park Amboró is a great natural area of 637,000 has., located in the end this of the Andean region of the department of Santa Cruz.

It is a zone of exceptional biodiversity by his condition of point of contact between the four main biogeographic regions of Santa Cruz: The Southeast of the Amazonia, the west of the Brazilian shield, the north of the Chaco, and the very diverse subtropical forests and temperings of Andean mountains.

A place of charming resistances. Thus it can be defined to the National Park Amboró, located in the “Elbow of the $andes”, the geographic point where the Western Mountain range changes of course towards the south.

This natural reserve of Bolivia - whose altitude varies of the 300 to 3,200 ms presents/displays accessible places little, because with the aid of the time, the crystalline water streams have been forming deep guns.
The climate in this natural reserve is tempered in the high zones and warm in the low parts. The annual average temperature fluctuates between the 12 and 24 degrees Celsius, following the height.


Flora and fauna

In the zones by where the clouds coquetean continuously with the slopes of Amboró, forests of giant ferns that grow next to cedars and maras exist.

Here everything is of an intense verdure: the valleys, guns and river basins form places difficult to accede due to constant rains that untie during the day.

A natural scene that it invites to the exploration. A zone by where almost ways do not exist vestiges of people nor many less than. Place known like the region yunga, where many migratory birds must pause to rest and to feed themselves. Incomparable beauty.
Thirty kilometers to the south, rains are less persistent. In this place, the traveller will observe imposing mountains, many of which are invaded by cattle groups which they go in search of foods.

In this zone of the National Park Amboró, well-known with the name of region of dry valleys, the hills are covered with cactus and other thorny shrubs; in addition, the presence of remote communities is noticed, since to ways and irrigation channels have been constructed.

The wonder of the landscapes extends by the different altitudinales floors, where the trees and seeds serve as home and food, respectively, to the numerous species of birds that fly over the zone.

In Amboró 700 species of birds exist, between migratory residents and. Some of them, like the turkey hen of copete of stone and the Milan, live almost exclusively - in the 637,000 hectares of this Bolivian park.
Within the fauna, they emphasize other species like jucumari, jaguar and bear flag, many of which is considered in extinction danger.