BOLIVIA

Location

Bolivia is located in Central South America, southwest of Brazil. The geographical coordinates are 17 00 S, 65 00 W and on a map it may be referenced in South America.

Geography

The total area of this great Latin American country is approximately 1,098,580 sq. km and is divided up into 1,084,390 sq. km land, and 14,190 sq. km water.

Bolivia is slightly less than three times the size of Montana. Bordered by five other South American countries (Argentina (832 km), Brazil (3,400 km), Chile (861 km), Paraguay (750 km), and Peru (900 km) approximately 6,743 km total ) Bolivia has no coastline (landlocked). Although Bolivia is landlocked, it shares control of Lago Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake (elevation 3,805 m), with Peru.

Climate

The climate in Bolivia varies with altitude, it is humid and tropical to cold and semiarid.

Terrain

The country's terrain is rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin. Elevation extremes range from the lowest point (Rio Paraguay) 90 m above sea level, to the highest point (Cerro Illimani) 6,882 m above sea level.

Resources

As of 1993 Bolivia had many natural resources including, tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber. The land was broken out in the following percentiles, 2% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 24% permanent pastures; 53% forests and woodland; and 21% other.

Latin Link escorted tours which visit Bolivia :
Amazon to Andes
Andes Overland
South America Discovery
Incas and Llamas
Inca Explorer
Bike the Andes

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