Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: SAMAIPATA

Distance of Santa Cruz of the Mountain range: 120 km

Altitude: 1.640m

Main center of services of the region that offers rest to the visitor in an atmosphere of colonial style and with pleasant fresh climate. Crystalline water rivers, that hurry in small cascades, form natural spas.

The hospitality of its inhabitants is worthy to emphasize for whom they wish to cross the countryside and to know the center more important pre-Hispanic rock architecture of South America: the Fort of Samaipata.

This archaeological monument is 6 km of Samaipata and is one of most important of the pre-Columbian time in Bolivia. It is to an altitude of 1949m, in the slope of an arenaceous stone hill, in which old cultures have carved variable figures. They excel the zoomorfas (serpents and pumas). It has, in addition, conduits and triangular, rectangular water tanks, seats and hornacinas.

One is an extraordinary and mysterious place whose origins and meaning are, still, reason for study. To these rest of a native culture coming from low earth, constructions of evident Andean origin have been added him.