Bolivia
Bolivia is a landlocked South American gem defined by extreme geography and profound indigenous heritage. It spans from the high-altitude Andean plateaus—home to the world's highest administrative capital, La Paz, and the surreal Salar de Uyuni—to the lush, wildlife-rich Amazon basin.
Cities & regions
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El Alto sits on the altiplano rim at roughly 4,000-4,150 metres, directly above La Paz, which lies in the canyon below. Once a satellite settlement, it is no…
Open guideLa Higuera is a hamlet of adobe houses with tiled roofs in the dry, low mountains of Santa Cruz department, roughly 50 km south of Vallegrande and about 90 m…
Open guideOruro is a mining city on the Bolivian altiplano at about 3,735 metres (12,250 ft), roughly 3.5-4 hours south of La Paz on the road to Uyuni. For most of the…
Open guidePotosí sits at roughly 4,067-4,090 metres in the Bolivian altiplano, making it one of the highest cities on earth, and it is built entirely in the shadow of…
Open guideSanta Cruz de la Sierra is Bolivia's largest city and its economic engine, sprawling across the hot tropical lowlands of the country's east at only about 400…
Open guideSucre is Bolivia's constitutional capital and its most beautiful city, a UNESCO-listed colonial centre of whitewashed facades, red-tiled roofs and courtyard…
Open guideTarija is Bolivia's wine capital, tucked into a broad valley in the far south at about 1,850 metres (6,070 ft) - low enough to escape the altiplano's thin ai…
Open guideTrinidad is the capital of Beni, Bolivia's Amazon frontier department, a hot, flat, low-rise cattle town of arcaded streets and motorbikes set among the seas…
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