Carrasco National Park is a

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

Cochabamba Department Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa Jach'a Suyu, es, Departamento de Cochabamba , qu, Quchapampa Suyu), from Quechua ''qucha'' or ''qhucha'', meaning "lake", ''pampa'' meaning "plain", is one of the nine departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the ...

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. It has a surface area of 6,226 square kilometers. More than 5,000 plant species have been registered in the area, placing the park among Bolivia's most biologically diverse. It is a protected area and people are prohibited from living inside the park. It was created on October 11, 1991. The park is a mountainous landscape of rivers, waterfalls, gentle valleys and deep canyons. It protects part of the

Bolivian Yungas The Bolivian Yungas is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in the Yungas of central Bolivia. Setting The ecoregion occurs in elevations ranging from on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia, extending into a small ...

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. There is exuberant vegetation that protects and harbors several animals, plants and trees that are in danger of extinction. The park is located to the east of Cochabamba Department and extends along the provinces of Carrasco,

Tiraque Tiraque is a location in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, and capital of the Tiraque Province Tiraque is a province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its capital is Tiraque. Subdivision The province is divided into two muni ...

and Chapare.

References

* National parks of Bolivia Geography of Cochabamba Department Protected areas established in 1991 1991 establishments in Bolivia {{SouthAm-protected-area-stub