Otuquis National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area, (''Parque Nacional y Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Otuquis'' (''PN-ANMI Otuquis'') or ''Parque Nacional y ANMI Pantanal de Otuquis''), is a

national park A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual ...

in the

Pantanal The Pantanal () is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area, and the world's largest flooded grasslands. It is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and ...

ecoregion of southeastern

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

. It is named after the Otuke indigenous people who inhabit the region.

Geography

It is located in the extreme southeast of the

Santa Cruz Department Santa Cruz () is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory. With an area of , it is slightly smaller than Japan or the US state of Montana. It is located in the e ...

on the borders with

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

and

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to t ...

, within the provinces Germán Busch and

Cordillera A cordillera is an extensive chain and/or network system of mountain ranges, such as those in the west coast of the Americas. The term is borrowed from Spanish, where the word comes from , a diminutive of ('rope'). The term is most commonly us ...

. It comprises a total area of , corresponding to the category

and to the category "Integrated Management Natural Area".

Nature

This park is known for its sightings of marsh deer,

capybara The capybaraAlso called capivara (in Brazil), capiguara (in Bolivia), chigüire, chigüiro, or fercho (in Colombia and Venezuela), carpincho (in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and ronsoco (in Peru). or greater capybara (''Hydrochoerus hydro ...

, spectacled caiman,

caiman lizard The genus ''Dracaena'' (romanized form of the Ancient Greek δράκαινα - ''drakaina'', "female dragon"), also called caiman lizards or water tegus, is in the teiid family, along with tegus and ameivas. Caiman lizards are found in Sou ...

s and the

yellow anaconda The yellow anaconda (''Eunectes notaeus''), also known as the Paraguayan anaconda, is a boa species endemic to southern South America. It is one of the largest snakes in the world but smaller than its close relative, the green anaconda. No subs ...

Jaguar The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus ''Panthera'' native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the th ...

s, pumas, pampas cats,

ocelot The ocelot (''Leopardus pardalis'') is a medium-sized spotted wild cat that reaches at the shoulders and weighs between on average. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Two subspecies are recognized. It is native to the southwe ...

s, lesser anteaters and other mammals also found here in healthy populations. Otuquis National Park is popular for birders when millions of birds flock here to feed on huge schools of bait fish.

External links

www.fundesnap.org / ''Parque Nacional y Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Pantanal de Otuquis''
(Spanish)
www.fcbc.org.bo / Áreas Protegidas en la región del Bosque Chiquitano
(Spanish) National parks of Bolivia Geography of Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia) Pantanal Protected areas established in 1997 1997 establishments in Bolivia {{SouthAm-protected-area-stub

Geography

Nature

See also

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