Torotoro National Park

Torotoro National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Area 165 km²

Torotoro National Park (Spanish "Parque Nacional Torotoro") is a small national park in Bolivia, situated among the eastern mountain ranges of the South American Andes cordilleras.

Geography

Torotoro National Park is situated in the Northern Potosí department, 140 km south of Cochabamba and only accessible by gravel roads and riverbeds, which takes seven hours in the dry season and much longer in the rainy season when sometimes the route becomes completely impassable. Torotoro National Park covers 165 km² and is located at 18° 7' S and 65° 46' W in a semi-arid landscape at altitudes between 2000 and 3500 m above sea level, with canyons as deep as 300 meters.

Places of interest

The Torotoro National Park offers scrubby woodland with wildlife like flocks of parakeets and the red-fronted macaw, as well as typical features of karst terrain like caves and dolines, Paleozoic and Cretaceous calcitic deposits with fossils, and panoramic landscapes eroded by glaciers, wind and waters. Among the main features of the park are: