Bolivian national parks

Bolivia has spectacular natural scenery and astounding biodiversity, both of which are protected in its national parks, monuments, sanctuaries and biosphere reserves.

Sajama National Park

Understand

The country's natural resources are protected by the National Service of Protected Areas (SERNAP), a federal government agency that manages 22 protected areas, 13 of which are designated as national parks and 3 more that are designated as integrated natural areas and 6 that are designated as biosphere reserves.

Biosphere reserves

Bolivia designates six areas as biosphere reserves. Three of these are also designated as UNESCO Biosphere Reserves:

  • 🌍 Pilón-Lajas Biosphere Reserve — preserves an area of Yungas wilderness and protects lands of at least three indigenous cultures
  • 🌍 Ulla-Ulla Biosphere Reserve — (managed as the Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area) area of Andean wetlands that is home to condors, alpacas, vicuñas and indigenous communities
  • 🌍 Beni Biological Station Biosphere Reserve — protects a region of mixed rain forest, savannah, and woodlands on the edge of the Amazon basin

Parks

  • 🌍 Madidi National Park — one of the world's most extensive biodiversity reserves. Its humid tropical climate has spawned one of Bolivia’s richest woodlands.
  • 🌍 Sajama National Park — Bolivia's oldest national park preserves a dry highland ecosystem that is the traditional home of the Aymara indigenous group
  • 🌍 Torotoro National Park — rugged landscape of canyons and ridges where paleontologists found 120 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bone shards from the Cretacous period
Cascada los Vencejos in_Amboró National Park
  • 🌍 Amboró National Park — one of the most biodiverse parks on Earth with more than 900 species of birds, more than 100 amphibian species, and more than 175 mammal species
  • 🌍 Carrasco National Park — a mountainous landscape of rivers, waterfalls, tranquil valleys and deep canyons where more than 5,000 plant species thrive
  • 🌍 Tunari National Park — home of Lake Warawara and rocky landscapes that flood every year

Tropical Lowlands

See also

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