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• Samaipata

  Samaipata or Samaypata (Quechua samay to rest, pata elevated place / above, at the top / edge, bank (of a river), shore) is a small town in the Florida Province of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia. It has a subtropical climate and an altitude of 1600–1800 m. It lies about 120 kilometers to the southwest of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the foothills of the Andes on the way to Sucre. It is a popular resort for the inhabitants of Santa Cruz due to its cool climate. As such, there is a regular bus and taxi service to Santa Cruz. The town is small with numerous colonial buildings and narrow cobbled streets. It is located near several tourist attractions such as El Fuerte de Samaipata, the Amboro National Park, El Codo de los Andes, Cuevas waterfalls, vineyards, rapids and lagoons, as well as well-preserved colonial towns such as Vallegrande, Pampagrande, Postrervalle, Santiago del Valle, Pucará, and others. It is also the first stop in the several tourist trails to Sucre, Potosi, and the Che Guevara route.

  Samaipata

• Caranavi

  Caranavi Province is one of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian La Paz Department and is situated in the department's eastern parts. The province was created by Law 1401 on 16 December 1992 from a portion of what was then Nor Yungas Province.The creation of the province had been a local cause embraced by Ramiro Revuelta, a Deputy in the national legislature who was assassinated on November 28, 1992.
  It extends over 55 km from West to East, and 75 km from North to South.
  The province is situated on the Bolivian Altiplano east of Lake Titicaca, on the headwaters of Río Beni, and borders Larecaja Province and in the Northwest, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province in the Southwest, Nor Yungas Province in the South, and Sud Yungas Province in the East and Northeast.

  Caranavi

• Jungas

  Coffee came first to this region in Bolivia, and most of Bolivia’s coffee—almost 95% of the country’s total production—still comes from here. There’s a reason for this: altitude. Stretching down the east side of the Andes Mountains from Peru on the north to Argentina on the southern end, it grows some of the highest altitude coffees in the world (high altitude translates into slower growing and ripening, hence more intensity of flavors). Coffees are usually named for areas within the region such as Caranavi, Inquisvi, or Coroico.

  Those mountains also mean that coffee buyers must travel via the infamous Jungas Road to reach producers. The Jungas Road is also referred to as the “Road of Death.” Mostly unpaved, it winds up, up, up and down, down, down, often narrowing to a single lane. Zero guardrails between vehicles and 2000+ meter drops to the valley floor.

  Jungas