Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: NATIONAL PARK NOEL KEMPFF

Of incomparable beauty and immense variety of species of still intact fauna and flora in its original habitat, the Park is where two of the most important ecosystems of South America meet: the forests of the Amazon and the Pampas of the Precámbrico Shield.

It is thought that, by virtue of its singular biogeographic situation, the Park Noel Kempff lodges one of the majors levels of biological diversity of the planet, great part of which has disappeared in other places, more accessible, of the amazonian river basin.

As main attractive it is the Caparú plateau, that rises until the 980 meters on the level of the low sea and until the surrounding plain in steep form by its imposing farallones protects that it.

It is a metamórficas island of arenaceous, rocks and basalts eroded from the Precámbrico, that yergue from the sylvan plain of green canopies, palmares, flooded savannahs and lagoons. Colonel discovered it to Fawcett in 1910 and his friend, the novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sent to the fame in his legendary novel “the Lost World to it”. Nevertheless from the disappearance of Fawcett, one put in doubt his existence and the one of his other findings until outside redescubierta by the gomeros that visited their neighborhoods in the Twenties

Adjacent with the Park it is the biological reserve of the Lagoon Bay with great wealth of birds and the presence of black caymans of great bearing.
Within the Park they have been registered more than 600 species of birds.

It is the habitat of more than 130 species of mammals that include otters and dolphins of fresh water, tapires, howling monkeys spiders and, giant armadillos, giant anteaters and jaguars in extinction danger, including a population of black jaguars, 620 species of birds (between which are 9 species of guacamayos, possibly the highest number in a protected area), and 70 species of reptiles, among them the black cayman.

The flora of the Park is rich in vegetal diversity of formation. They emphasize species of economic importance like mara, the oak, the cedar, the rubber, several species of palms like the asaí or palm heart, besides an important diversity of species of orchids.