A lake of Andean riversides of thin vegetation and excessive height, a mountain range of frozen mountains, a still and calm sea of salt that they call Uyuni, a labyrinth of greenery tangles, a nosegay of picturesque valleys... Contradictory panoramas in a country of purified shades that is sometimes moor or fertile field or crammed bustling forest of life.

The Republic of Bolivia -that receives its name in honor to the liberator Simón Bolivar- is a bastion of the cultural diversity in the center of South America. In its territory of 1'098.581 square kilometers, inhabit around 8 million people, of which, 56% is part of one of the 32 Andean ethnic groups that maintain alive their beautiful traditions.

In the Bolivian territory, the Cordillera de los Andes is divided in two chains of mountains: the Occidental Volcánica and the Oriental or Real. Both determine the dissimilar geography of the country that is characterized by the presence of plateaus of great altitude and severe climatic conditions, temperate and productive valleys and a vast forest area, suffocating paradise for a great quantity of flora and fauna species.

The main cities of this Andean country are curled up in the skirts of the big mountains or amid the hot valleys. Sucre, the constitutional capital, is a haven for the university students; La Paz, the government's headquarters, preserves a touch of its old look; Santa Cruz de la Sierra is colored of modernity; while Oruro surrenders to the frenzy during the carnival and Potosí, continues missing the tons of silver of its “Cerro Rico”.

In Bolivia the voices of the past are still listened. They might come from the Lake Titicaca and its mythical and legendary aura or from the pre Columbian remains of Tiahuanaco with their idols carved in stone. Perhaps arise in the eternal whispers of faith of the colonial temples or in the people's sayings that conserve and store the cultural inheritance of an Andean country that is sometimes moor or fertile field an others a crammed bustling forest of life.