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The ecoregion occurs in elevations ranging from 400 to 3,500 metres (1,300 to 11,500 ft) on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia, extending into a small portion of southeastern Peru. It forms a transition zone between the Southwest Amazon moist forests to the northeast and the Central Andean puna and wet puna to the southwest.
The Southern Andean Yungas consists of a mesic evergreen forest, with trees typically less than 15 metres (49 ft) tall. [citation needed] The species composition of the forests varies with elevation and precipitation. The foothill forests are a transition between the Yungas and the semi-arid Dry Chaco of the lowlands.
The Yungas (Aymara yunka warm or temperate Andes or earth, Quechua yunka warm area on the slopes of the Andes) [1] [2] is a bioregion of a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru and Bolivia, and extends into Northwest Argentina at the slope of the Andes pre-cordillera. It is a transitional zone between ...
Zion National Park in Utah Moose are among the many wild animals visitors may see at Grand Teton National Park This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: National parks from Acadia to Zion ...
The valley follows the course of the Zongo River and is located within the Cordillera Real, from the Huayna Potosí mountain at 6,090 m (19,980 ft) above sea level and up to 800 m (2,600 ft) above sea level, in the tropical area of the Bolivian Yungas. The Zongo Valley belongs to the Zongo macrodistrict of the municipality of La Paz.
The Yungas Road, popularly known as The Death Road, is a 64-kilometre (40 mi) long cycle route linking the city of La Paz with the Yungas region of Bolivia. It was conceived in the 1930s by the Bolivian government to connect the capital city of La Paz with the Amazon Rainforest in the north part of the country.
The geography and climate of Bolivia has led to the formation a wide variety of lakes, from salt saturated lakes in the Altiplano to oxbow lakes in the eastern lowlands. Many of Bolivias lakes are formed only seasonally during the austral summer and remains for the rest of the year as salt flats in the altiplano or swamps in the eastern lowlands.
Amboró National Park in central Bolivia is a nature reserve with over 912 species of birds, over 177 mammalian species including puma, ocelot, and the rare spectacled bear. Covering an area of 4,425 km² (1,709 sq mi), it is protected from human settlements, hunting, mining and deforestation , though problems with all these still exist within ...
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