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Aguaragüe National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area (''Parque Nacional y Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Serranía del Aguaragüe'') is a
protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
in
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situated in the
Tarija Department Tarija () is a department in Bolivia. It is located in south-eastern Bolivia bordering with Argentina to the south and Paraguay to the east. According to the 2012 census, it has a population of 482,196 inhabitants. It has an area of . The city ...
,
Gran Chaco Province Gran Chaco is a province in the eastern parts of the Bolivian department Tarija. The province voted to become an autonomous region on 6 December 2009. Location ''Gran Chaco'' province is one of six provinces in the Tarija Department. It is loc ...
. The national park covers the whole of
Serranía del Aguaragüe Serranía del Aguaragüe is the easternmost range of Bolivia's Cordillera Oriental. Serranía del Aguaragüe stretches out in a north–south fashion from the latitude of crossing the Bolivian departments of Tarija, Chuquisaca and Santa Cruz. Ge ...
, the easternmost mayor Sub-Andean range. The
Southern Andean Yungas The Southern Andean Yungas is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in the Yungas of southwestern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. Geography The ecoregion occurs along the eastern slope of the Andes from southern Bolivia ...
montane forests cover much of the park. A portion is in the Dry Chaco."Aguarague". DOPA Explorer. Accessed 3 April 2022

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www.fundesnap.org / Aguaragüe National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area
(Spanish) National parks of Bolivia Geography of Tarija Department Gran Chaco Protected areas established in 2000 2000 establishments in Bolivia Southern Andean Yungas {{SouthAm-protected-area-stub