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.
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.
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
- 🌍 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
- 🌍 Noel Kempff Mercado National Park — remote park on the border with Brazil with remarkable biodiversity in several different ecoregions including tropical rainforests, savannah, wetlands, and dry forest
- 🌍 Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory — protects an area of the Yungas ecosystem and traditional homelands of the Tsimané, Yuracaré, and Mojeño-Trinitario Indigenous cultures of South America