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Linhas brancas retas são estradas, linhas e faixas brancas sinuosas são rios / Ivirgarzama, almost 10,000 people, at Bolívia´s Puerto Vilarroel county. One of the largest towns in Bolivia´s Cochabamba Tropic. Urban area in white, at image top right. Forest in dark green. Spots in the forest are legal coca plantations.
Sales of coca leaf amounted to approximately US$265 million in 2009, representing 14% of all agricultural sales and 2% of Bolivia's GDP. [4] Coca is legally sold in wholesale markets in Villa Fátima in La Paz and in Sacaba, Cochabamba.
In Peru, areas planted with coca rose by 18% last year, and in Bolivia — where there are no figures for 2022 — there was an increase of 4% a year earlier, she said.
A brew of ancient coca is Bolivia's buzzy new beer. But it's unclear if the world will buy in. PAOLA FLORES. June 11, 2024 at 11:57 AM.
Coca eradication in Colombia. Coca eradication is a strategy promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its "war on drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the manufacture of cocaine.
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A coca plantation in the Yungas region of Bolivia in 1924 where historically cultivation had been done using slave labor. Many newly brought slaves died due to the weather. Coca leaves helped with alleviating altitude sickness. [8] Just like the mines of Potosí, coca plantations became a cash-crop of the region.