Eduardo Ruilowa, El Deber: Foto: Jorge Ibáñez Fibra de algodón de toborochi | Toborochi cotton fiber (Ceiba Speciosa)/ Foto: Jorge Ibáñez La Tejedora Juana Carrillo logró el primer hilado con algodón de toborochi | Weaver Juana Carrillo achieved the first yarn with toborochi cotton / Foto: Jorge Ibáñez [Haga click aqui para ver el video]…
Category: Environment
Pre-Columbian City | Ciudad precolombina
Archaeology: Pre-Columbian City in Bolivia Investigated With Airborne Lasers BONN, GERMANY—A pre-Columbian landscape inhabited by the people of the Casarabe culture between A.D. 500 and 1400 has been mapped in Bolivia’s Amazon rain forest by archaeologist Heiko Prümers of the German Archaeological Institute and his colleagues, according to a Science News report. Prümers said that the lidar…
Natural parks, land of drugs | Parques naturales, tierra de drogas
Editorial, El Deber: The national parks of Bolivia are abandoned, the State does not take care of them and, as a natural consequence, drug traffickers appropriate them to install their cocaine factories there, when the settlers are not the ones who arrive first to occupy land, to clear and settle illegally with the help of…
Dolphins playing with an anaconda – Bufeos jugando con una anaconda
2 male dolphins were seen playing with an anaconda while sexually aroused in a perplexing encounter captured by researchers Kelsey Vlamis, Business Insider: Researchers in Bolivia captured a rare encounter between Bolivian river dolphins and Beni anacondas. At one point, two adult male dolphins held onto the snake and swam in unison while sexually aroused….
A Waterfall was discovered in Noel Kempff Park – Se descubrió una Catarata en el parque Noel Kempff
El Deber: La ‘Catarata Perdida’ – The ‘Lost Waterfall’ They discover a ‘lost waterfall’ in the Noel Kempff Mercado park This waterfall has an approximate fall that is between 12 and 18 meters high and is between 70 and 80 meters wide. It also has a natural pool about 70 meters wide by 120 long…
YUNGAS road
Travel, BBC: The world’s most dangerous road (Image credit: Harald von Radebrecht/Alamy) By Shafik Meghji A drive down Bolivia’s infamous “Death Road” takes travellers into a world where two resources have provoked fascination, misunderstanding and controversy for centuries: coca and gold. After cresting the 4,800m Cumbre pass, the trufi (shared taxi) plunged into a cloud of swirling mist….
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 