SANTA CRUZ

For its location, the warmth of its climate and its people the city of Santa Cruz has become the convention center, festivals and national and international meetings, developing a major hotel infrastructure with all the services, being ever-present options leisure and fun by visiting museums, malls, rivers, hot springs, villages and archaeological ruins centenarians.

The city was divided by ring within the first ring is the "Old Town", where you can visit the main square on September 24 and the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. Are also museums, natural sites such as the El Arenal park, the Zoo, the cabins of the river Pirai, Laguna Palmira, Yvaga Guazú Park, the Park Guembé.

It has tourist attractions near the city, like Las Lomas de Arena del Palmar, the picturesque village of Cotoca with his miraculous virgin. And at night the city offers many attractions and activities in local distraction located at Av. St Martin Equipetrol the residential district and at Av. Monsignor Rivero known as the Boulevard Cruceños.

Samaipata to 120 km. the city is the cultural and tourist center of the valleys to the eastern foothills of the Andes and gateway to the National Park Amboró. A colonial village surrounded by nurseries, Inca ruins and excellent restaurants, well visited on weekends where he sits one of the most important treasures of America

"El Fuerte de Samaipata," an old and lonely ceremonial center retains large geometric and zoomorphic symbols carved in stone, as the three animals that according to legend represent a covenant of unity among the tribes, the jaguar, rhea and the enormous rattlesnake with more than 30 meters long, was proclaimed by the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Jesuit Missions to 229 km. from the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra just four hours, the missions were established in the main settlement of the Jesuits in the new world, who gathered to nomadic tribes under the leadership of its chief calls on communities to drive Reductions to indigenous people in civil life and religious musical building missions from 1691 until 1760. The architecture of the temples in the Baroque style mestizo, is supplemented with wall paintings and carved wooden beauty.

Since 1996, and every 2 years, is the International Festival of Renaissance and Baroque American Music, organized by the Association Pro-Art and Culture (APAC), a non-profit institution. In mid-1975 it carried out the restoration of the Church of Conception, in the course of which 6000 were found scores of music belonging to the XVII and XVIII.

Three ecosystems Andean, Amazon and Chaco form National Park Amboró It is and important place where migratory birds made scale. The biodiversity of the park is so abundant that without having completed the count of birds have been identified over 830 species, a situation that makes the National Park Amboró in an observation center of international significance

It is also an area conducive to the scientific study on fauna and flora which are the giant tree ferns (Cyathea. Alsophyla) found in clouded forests. There are also tree species such as gang or American mahogany, palm Açaí palm, the mountain pine (Podocarpus spp.), Walnut (Juglans Bolivia) and a wide variety of orchid species.

As a result of the management plan, there have been 127 species of mammals, among which 43 species of bats. Among the large mammals are at or jucumari Andean bear, the tiger or jaguar American, the bear flag (ant). It is presented in the park a high level of endemism, 105 species of reptiles and 73 species of amphibians among which 50 species of frogs. There are 812 species of birds, birds that arouse greater interest are the kettle of forelock (Pauxi unicornis), and the military stopped (Ara militaris). They survive in the park, many species of endemic and endangered birds in other regions.

Volcanoes are found refuge in the southern limit of Amboró National Park, an hour and a half from the city of Santa Cruz in the direction of Samaipata. It offers countless opportunities to observe plants and animals in their natural environment.

Bolivian Pantanal, characterized by a vast mosaic of marshes permanent inundadizas plains, palm trees, gallery forests, dry forests, lakes and rivers that are inhabited by numerous species of plants and animals.

This is one of the ecosystems where Americans is easier to observe animals in their natural state, especially during the dry season, when the water level is reduced and lays bare Playon, where they are grouped thousands of lizards, birds, capiguaras and the legendary anaconda.

Park Noel Kempff Mercado, declared the year 2000 Natural Heritage of Humanity, is located northeast of the department of Santa Cruz to 600 km. away from the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the provinces Velasco (Santa Cruz) and Iténez (Beni). The main river is the Iténez. Pauserma Verde rivers and develop on the plateau Caparú and form the famous and beautiful waterfalls Fawcett, Federico Ahlfeld and Arco Iris. The park also has several lagoons, like Chaplin and Bella Vista. The park has a high biodiversity and is important globally as a reserve for its large area of protected area and conservation status.

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