Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: THE BENI

The department of Beni is located to the northeast of the Republic of Bolivia, limits the north with the Bulging department of and the Republic of Brazil; to the south with the departments of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz; to the east with Brazil and Santa Cruz and to the West with Pando and La Paz. It has an extension of 213,654 km2s and one population of 276,174 inhabitants (1992 census).

The capital is the city of Trinidad (236 msnm).

The zone of the Biological Station of the Beni is constituted by a series of “wooded archipelagoes” surrounded by savannahs and moist soils by the level mojeños.

The Beni has humid tropical climate, with a pluvial precipitation annual average that vary between 1,000 mm and 4,000 mm in all their territory. In certain seasons, the territory of the Beni is furrowed by cold winds of the south, that produce temperature drops. These winds are known like surazos.

The towns of Moxos (today Beni) were created due to the spiritual conquest of the natives, carried out by the missionaries with base in Santa Cruz and Cochabamba. The Jesuit Castle and the parents Pedro Marbán and Cipriano Barace, who had been appointed to the conquest of the region, moved from Lima to Santa Cruz; in 1675, they overcame the Guabay river until the zone already recognized of the Moxos, founding the first Mission of Our Mrs. of Loreto on 1682, with the collaboration of the parents Orellana, Vega and Letuna. The jesuíticas missions, today turned into cities and towns, were placed to borders of the rivers Mamoré and San Miguel.

Activities:
Strolls to horse by small sections; strolls by tropical forests, wild animal habitat numerous; senderismo by green full ways of magic, is only some of the activities that can be developed in the biological station.

Within some of the plans to conserve the station - declared by UNESCO “Reserve of the Biosphere” - the group of Chimanes natives has drawn up to an integral plan between diverse Bolivian institutions and, so that the conservation and the care of the zone are a reality.