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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MADIDI NATIONAL PARK

 

Madidi was created and designated National Park and Natural Area of integrated Management on September 21st, 1995.

 

Area:  Madidi has an extension of 1.895.750 hectares (18.957 km2), from which 1.271.500 hectares belong to the National Park and 624.250 hectares to the Natural Area of Integrated Management.

 

Location:  Madidi is located in the north-eastern part of the La Paz Department, inside the provinces of Franz Tamayo, Abel Iturralde, Bautista Saavedra and Larecaja. It also involves the districts of Apolo, San Buenaventura, Ixiamas, Pelechuco, Curva, Charazani, and Guanay. It borders with Peru to the west.

 

http://www.sernap.gov.bo/madidi

 

(( At present (July 2009) the site  http://www.sernap.gov.bo  is under modification and informs:  “Página en construcción”  (Page under construction. ))

 

 

Please note the sub menus (with red types) at the top of the above ”Flash” part of this page:

Population

The demographic rate in the Madidi National Park ….

Area

The Madidi National Park and the ”Natural Area of Integrated Management” borders ….

Biodiversity

The Madidi NP and ”NaoIM” are located inside the region with the biggest biological richness of Bolivia ….

Flora

Madidi presents a great variety of eco-regions ….

Fauna

There are 733 classified animal species within the Madidi NP ….

 


 

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Revised 2009-07-18