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Equal in size to California and Texas combined, Bolivia holds thousands of unexplored Inca and pre-Inca ruins, thousands of square miles of Amazon rainforest, unsurpassed wildlife viewing, and very few tourists. It is the least populated, least explored of the nine South American countries that comprise the Amazon Basin. Bolivia is home to 500 mountain peaks that top 16,000 feet, the world's richest silver mines, newly discovered dinosaur fossils, isolated salt flats, and wild Amazon jungles that have yet to receive close inspection by science. Annual flooding in the Bolivian Amazon ensures minimal human presence and allows over 1,300 bird, 220 reptile, 100 amphibian, 20 primate, 316 mammal, and thousands of plant species to dominate.
Bolivia's geography includes rugged Andes Mountains, thousands of square miles of rivers and lush rainforests, tree-spotted savannas, hidden lagoons, and white sand beaches. Within its borders live Andean condors, jaguars, pink dolphins, toucans, anacondas, Blue Morpho butterflies, manatees, caimans, 8-foot diameter water lilies, and tremendous numbers of birds, including the extremely rare blue-throated macaw, first spotted in the wild in 1992*. Bolivia is both highway and home to millions of birds that migrate between the Americas via the Pacific and Central flyways.
*In the Reina's area of navigation. We continuously search for additional individuals.
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