The Republic of Bolivia (Spanish: República de Bolivia), named after Simón Bolívar, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and ... More

The Cordillera Occidental is a chain of dormant volcanoes and solfataras, volcanic vents emitting sulfurous gases. Bolivia's highest peak, the snowcapped Sajama (6,542 meters), is located here. The ... More

Although Bolivia lies entirely within tropical latitudes, climatic conditions vary widely from tropical in the lowlands to polar in the highest parts of the Andes. Temperatures depend primarily on ... More

The origin of the name Titicaca is unknown. It has been translated as "Rock Puma", allegedly because of its resemblance to the shape of a puma hunting a rabbit, combining words from the local ... More

Laguna Verde (Green Lagoon) is a salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia, in the Department of Potosí, Province of Sud Lípez, on the Chilean border at the foot of the volcano ... More

Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon) is a shallow salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia, within Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and close to the border with Chile. Maximum ... More

Lake Poopó is a large saline lake located in a shallow depression in the Altiplano Mountains in Bolivia at an altitude of approximately 3,700 meters. Because the lake is long and wide (90 km by 32 ... More

The Abuna River (Spanish Río Abuná, Portuguese Rio Abunã) is a river in South America. As a part of the Amazon Basin, it forms part of the border between northern Bolivia and north-western ... More

The Acre River (sometimes called Aquiry) (locally, Rio Acre) is a 650 km long river in central South America. The river rises in Peru, and runs eastwards, forming part of the border between Bolivia ... More

Río Arque is one of the headwaters of Río Grande and Mamoré River in Bolivia. Río Arque has its source in the Cordillera Tres Cruces on the western slope of Cerro Huaylluma at 17°41′0″S, 66°43′30″W, ... More

The Beni River (in Spanish Río Beni) is a river in the north of Bolivia. It rises north of La Paz and flows northeast through the pampas. One of the tributary rivers is Tuichi River in the Madidi ... More

The Bermejo River is a river in South America that travels a total of 1450 km from Bolivia to the Paraguay River in Argentina. The river is generally called Bermejo in spite of its different names ... More

Caine is the name of a river in the eastern cordilleras of the Bolivian Andes in South America. More

The Chapare River is a river in Bolivia, which is a tributary of the Mamoré River in the Amazon River watershed. The river has its source at the confluence of Espíritu Santo River and San Mateo River ... More

Chimoré River (Spanish: Río Chimoré) is a river in Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. More

Choré River (Spanish: Río Choré) is a river in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. More

The Desaguadero River in Peru and Bolivia is the only river draining Lake Titicaca. It exits the lake at the southern part of the river basin, it flows south and drains approximately five percent of ... More

Río Ichilo is a Bolivian river at the foot of the Eastern Andes-Cordillera in South America. Río Ichilo has its source in Manuel Maria Caballero Province in Santa Cruz Department at an elevation of ... More

The Lauca River is a binational river. It originates from Chilean Altiplano of the Tarapacá Region, crosses the Andes and empties into Coipasa Lake, in Bolivia. The upper reach of the river lies ... More

The Madeira River is a major waterway in South America, approximately 3,380 km (2,100 miles) long. Madeira is the longest tributary of Amazon. The mean inter-annual precipitations on the great basins ... More

The Madre de Dios River, homonymous to the Peruvian region it runs through, then becomes the Beni River in Bolivia and then turns northward into Brazil, where it is called the Madeira River. The ... More

The Mamoré is a large river in Bolivia, which unites with the Beni to form the Madeira, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon. It rises on the northern slope of the Sierra de Cochabamba, east ... More

The Paraguay River (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese) is a major river in south central South America, running through Brazil and Paraguay and running close to the border between ... More

Río Pilcomayo is a river in the central parts of South America, longest western tributary of the Paraguay River, and its watershed extends across 270,000 km². The Picomayo rises in the foothills of ... More

The Quiquibey River is a river in the Parque Nacional Pilón-Lajas in the north of Bolivia. The Quiquibey River joins the Beni River south of Rurrenabaque (upstream and south of Beni's tributary the ... More

Rápulo River also Ráputo River (Spanish: Río Rápulo, Río Ráputo) is a river in El Beni Department, Bolivia. More

The Río Grande (or Río Guapay) in Bolivia rises on the southern slope of the Sierra de Cochabamba, east of the city of Cochabamba, at 17°26′11″S, 65°52′22″W. At its source it is known as the Río ... More

Huge expanses of the southern Altiplano are saline and barren, but ichu (a coarse bunchgrass) is common in the north, where it is grazed by llamas. Tola (a tough, wind-resistant shrub) and mosslike ... More

The soils of the Altiplano, mainly clays, sands, and gravels—are dry and loosely consolidated; slopes that are exposed to strong winds or storm water are severely eroded. Soils to the south of the ... More

Bolivia is divided into nine departments (departamentos); capitals in parentheses: • Beni (Trinidad) • Chuquisaca (Sucre) • Cochabamba (Cochabamba) • La Paz (La Paz) • Oruro (Oruro) • Pando ... More