Santa Cruz Tourist Attractions: 10 Top Places To Visit
Planning to visit Santa Cruz? Check out our Santa Cruz Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Santa Cruz.
Top Places to visit in Santa Cruz:
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz Wharf, Mystery Spot, Wilder Ranch State Park, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, New Brighton State Beach, Lighthouse Field State Beach, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Bolivia Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia
Bolivia, a landlocked South American country, holds the promise of discovery for adventurous souls. While pretty Sucre, “La Ciudad Blanca,” is Bolivia’s judicial capital, La Paz is its political capital and also its main tourist hub.
On the Mirador at Laikacota, you get a feel for how incredibly high up in the Andes this city sits. Deep in the valley below lies the central Plaza Murillo, home to the most precious buildings: the Presidential Palace, National Congress and Metropolitan Cathedral. Most visitors stay near the Plaza San Francisco, because of its proximity to hidden gems, such as the curious Witches’ Market, the Musical Instrument Museum and the Coca Museum.
Around La Paz, you can ride down “El Camino de la Muerte, hike through the lunar landscape of Valle de la Luna and great the alpacas that road around the Tiwanaku Cultural Heritage Site.
Bolivia is a diamond in the rough. It’s relatively poor and undeveloped, but its extremely authentic, colorful and cultural. Bolivia’s riches shine through in the country’s high altiplanos, its floating reed islands on Lake Titicaca, the silver mines of Potosi, the infinite salt flats of the Salar de Uyuni and the untamed tropical lowlands in the vast Amazon basin.
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Santa Cruz Bolivia - Santa Cruz de la Sierra Tourism
The department (state) of Santa Cruz occupies almost the entire Eastern and South Eastern section of Bolivia and is the largest of the country's nine departments. The city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra is located in the western section of the state, and is its capital city.
Through the 1950's it was still considered a small, marginal city with a population of only 25,000. Today Santa Cruz is modern and prosperous and Bolivia's financial center with a population of over 2 million, making it Bolivia's largest city. It is quickly becoming the most developed region of Bolivia and currently supplies nearly 40% of the country's Gross National Product. It is also among the 15 fastest growing cities in the world.
Some of the ethnic groups native to the Department of Santa Cruz, mainly from the tropical forests and other impenetrable regions, are the Guarayos, Guaraní, Sirionós, Chiquitanos, Chamacocos, Zamucos, Lenguas, Tapietes, and Yuacarés, among many others. Not native to the region, but increasing in presence due to immigration, are the Aymara and Quechua populations which have migrated to the city in record numbers over the past 10 years.
As this region was ignored for over 450 years and past governments did little to develop it, cruceños are proud of the fact that they've developed most of their city and their region through private funding and enterprise. Cruceños are generally easy going, hospitable, warm and inviting, but are also intensely protective and proud of their social and cultural heritage.
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BOLIVIA BY BICYCLE - From the tropics to the Altiplano
We cycled from east to west, starting in the tropical region of the Chaco and Santa Cruz. Hereafter we climbed to the altiplano, passing the beautiful cities of Sucre and Potosi. The highlight came in the end, crossing Salar de Uyuni
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Kaa-Iya NP Casa de Turismo Road Movies Bolivia
Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area (Parque Nacional y Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco) is the biggest national park in Bolivia and one of the largest in South America. It is a protected area in the region of the Gran Chaco and has a larger surface area than Belgium. It is situated in the south of Santa Cruz Department on the border with Paraguay in the Cordillera Province (Charagua Municipality) and Chiquitos Province (Pailón Municipality and San José de Chiquitos Municipality).
Kaa Iya National Park is internationally famous for its big cat population especially the jaguar, it is considered as one of the best places in the world for jaguar viewing opportunities. A camera trap study by WCS estimated that there are over 1000 jaguars living within the park which makes it one of the most important areas for the survival of these big cats. Tapirs, pumas, ocelots and more are seen frequently inside the park.
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Bolivia (HD1080p)
*** Bolivia, is a sovereign country located in the central-western region of South America, politically it is constituted as a plurinational state, decentralized with autonomies. It is organized in nine departments. Its capital is Sucre, 1 seat of the judicial organ; La Paz is the seat of the executive, legislative and electoral bodies, it is also the political, cultural and financial epicenter of the country. It has a population of about 10.1 million inhabitants according to the last census, of the year 2012. ***
La Paz, Bolivia - Part 3
La Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz, commonly known as La Paz, is Bolivia's third most-populous city, the seat of the country's government and the capital of La Paz Department. It is located on the western side of Bolivia at an elevation of roughly 3,650 m (11,975 ft) above sea level.
It is, de facto, the world's highest administrative capital. While the official capital of Bolivia (and its seat of justice) is Sucre, La Paz has more government departments.
The city sits in a bowl surrounded by the high mountains of the altiplano. As it grew, the city of La Paz climbed the hills, resulting in varying elevations from 3,200 to 4,100 m (10,500 to 13,500 ft). Overlooking the city is towering triple-peaked Illimani, which is always snow-covered and can be seen from many parts of the city, including from the neighboring city of El Alto. As of the 2008 census, the city had a population of 877,363.
La Paz Metropolitan area, formed by the cities of La Paz, El Alto, and Viacha, make the most populous urban area of Bolivia, with a population of 2.3 million inhabitants and surpassing the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
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Bolivia - La Paz,Bus tour - South America,part 66 - Travel video HD
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the seat of government of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of the La Paz Department, and the second largest city in the country (in population) after Santa Cruz de la Sierra.It is located in the western part of the country in the department of the same name at an elevation of roughly 3,650 m (11,975 ft) (the city is built on steep hills) above sea level, making it the world's highest de facto capital city, or administrative capital, with Quito being the highest legal capital.
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Santa Cruz island: Most Populated island. History & how to travel
Santa Cruz del Islote Island is an artificial island located off the coast of Bolívar Department in Colombia. It also called Santa Cruz Islet or Holy Cross Islet. It is a part of the Archipelago of San Bernardo. Its significant population compared with its small size results in its being one of the most densely populated islands on Earth. It is a crush of houses and winding streets on a tiny outcrop in the sea which is barely noticeable on a world map.
HISTORY
Santa Cruz was discovered about 150 years ago by some wandering fisherman from Barú, on the Colombia coast. They noticed that the island had no mosquitoes—a rarity in the Caribbean—and set up camp. That night, as the legend goes, the men slept so peacefully that they decided to stay.
AREA:
The island is 200 meters in length and 120 meters wide. It has a total area of 12,000 m2.
HOW TO GO
Two hours off the coast of Colombia. It can be accessed by a ferry ride from the port of Tolu.
POPULATION
There are 1200 residents, two shops, a restaurant, a school, and no cops. The residents work on the mainland instead of on the island. The Mucura Island Hotels are a prime source of work for the residents. Residents live in close quarters, making the island most dense living place on earth.
LIVING WAY
There's no doctor there. Just a few hours of electricity a day with a single generator. And no running water or sewer system. The Colombian navy drops off a limited amount of fresh water every three weeks. children are usually well-behaved. The only way most residents will ever move away from Santa Cruz del Islote is when they die. Due to the lack of space there is no graveyard and their dead are buried on nearby smaller islands. Women wash the clothes with salty water from a nearby well. And men settle for doing most of their necessities on the surrounding sea.
Beautiful Beni, Bolivia's Tropical Amazon - Bolivia Tourism
Beni is the second largest state in Bolivia and it's capital city is Trinidad. It covers the entire northeastern portion of Bolivia. Beni is criss-crossed by numerous rivers, all of which are Amazon tributaries. Other important cities in Beni are Guayaramerín, Riberalta, and for tourism, Rurrenabaque.
Because of this geography, Beni was a very important center of pre-Colombian civilization known as the hydro-culture of Las Lomas (the hills), a culture that constructed over 20,000 man-made artificial hills, all interconnected by thousands of square kilometers of aqueducts, channels, embankments, artificial lakes and lagoons, and terraces.
Beni, Bolivia is where many products that are now used worldwide have their origin, among them tobacco, peanuts, cotton, yucca (manioc), vanilla and sweet potatoes. The Spanish initially were intensely interested in this area. During the first century of colonization, they believed the mythical city of El Dorado (also known as Paititi) could be found in this region.
Beni's capital city, Trinidad, located in the Bolivian tropics, is hot and humid most of the year. This region of the country is heavily forested. Between the 19th and 20th Centuries northern Beni became Bolivia's rubber capital. The abundance of rubber trees attracted many people to the region, many of them adventurers and others workers (many of whom were indigenous) to work in the huge rubber plantations that arose. For decades it was one of the most active, dynamic regions of Bolivia.
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