Tourism in Cobija, Pando, Bolivia
Visit Cobija, capital of Pando. And enjoy the hotels and lodgings service,
besides the varied gastronomy of the place.
The department of Pando has 5 provinces and 11 cantons.
Cobija, is the capital of Pando, it is a city with a panoramic beauty, seems that
of art composition, a work done by the most capricious and daring artist.
Now, the Pando's economy it is based on the gathering of the chestnut
and latex. The rubber that is extracted from their forests is considered in the world
the best high quality.
Pando has a promissory future in the tourism industry, because it has many places
of great beauty and the main attractions of this department offer adventure,
nature, enjoyment, sports, fishing and a relaxation cuddled by the surrounding.
Tourist attractiveness and Ecological tourism.-
The main square is one of the best of the Republic. To the south, we can see an
elevated Dutch landscape, high with an enormous and undulated prairie with an
emerald green color.
To the northeast is Acre Lumberyard; to the west is a spread drape to admire the
beauty of the sun highly shining sunsets and always-different one from the other.
For its original architecture, it is recommended to visit: the Prefecture building,
Municipal Mayorship, the Post Office, the Social Club, the Naval Base, the Palace
of Justice, the agricultural Polytechnic to the Northwest and the Public Market.
Natural tourist attractions, like:
· Las Piedras (The Stones) it is a region where traces of constructions
with Inkan characteristics that seem to be the proof of the trip of conquer
taken by Inka Yupanqui. There are stony traces of some aborigine population that
inhabited this region.
· San Vicente Acre River is known as an animal cemetery where there are
hundreds of petrified fossils in an admirable state of conservation that seem to
belong to big turtles that used to have shells over 4 meters big. A great
producing center of rubber and almond.
· River Tahuananu Lagoons in these lagoons can be practiced the fishing sport.
· The Bay Lake, located near to the Manupiri River, distant only at 25 minutes by
light plane from Cobija.
· The Alto Woodland, ideal place for the tourism adventure and the hunting practice.
. The Cachuelas , located on the Abuna River and at only 2 hours to the
waterway by hydrofoil.
Ethnics groups
In the Amazonian forests of Pando, surrounded by the characteristic exotic beauty
of flora and fauna, they inhabit ethnics groups as: Toromonas, Pacahuaras, Machicangas
and other tribes.
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