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Date of last field
evaluation |
June 2004 (updated in July 2005) |
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Name |
Cotapata |
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Category |
National Park and Integrated Management
Natural Area* |
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Year created |
1993 |
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Area |
60,000 ha |
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Main objectives |
- Conservation of biological diversity, in
particular of the high Andean and Yungas
biomes;
- Regulation of the use of natural
resources by local residents and
improvement of their living conditions;
- Protection of the local archaeological and
cultural heritage and recovery of local
inhabitants’ traditional knowledge (see
Appendix 2) |
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Location |
In the northwest of the La Paz department,
in the Nor Yungas and Murillo provinces |
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Ecoregions |
Humid Puna grasslands and Humid
montane cloud forests (Yungas) |
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Habitats |
Glaciers, snow-fields, periglacia1
environments, high Andean grasslands,
highland wetlands called “bofedales,”
Yungas paramos, cloud forest ridges, and
humid montane cloud forests |
* The Integrated Management Natural Area (IMNA) category is meant to harmonize the conservation of biological diversity with the sustainable development of the local population. It constitutes a mosaic of land uses, including representative samples of ecoregions, biogeographic provinces, natural communities or plant and animal species of special importance, traditional land use systems, multiple-use zones, and strict protection zones (Art. 25 - D.S. N° 24,781, 07.31.1997)
Authors: Dimitri de Boissieu, Mario Diego Lilienfeld and Stéphane Pauquet
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