Bolivia

Amazon basin · 22 protected areas · 155 Indigenous territories

The numbers

  • Forest cover, whole country: 46.3% of land (2023, World Bank — national, not basin-only)
  • Land area, whole country: 1,083,300 km² (2023)
  • Population, whole country: 12,581,843 (2025)
  • Protected areas in the basin: 22, 117,397 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
  • Indigenous territories in the basin: 155, 196,381 km² by GIS area
  • Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 115 page areas: 69

As of 2026-09-12. Species-at-risk counts and live alert/fire totals are on the dashboard's country card.

Under the most pressure

Protected areas (22)

  • Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco — Parque Nacional · 17,457 km²
  • Noel Kempff Mercado — Parque Nacional · 14,667 km²
  • Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco — Área Natural de Manejo Integrado · 13,555 km²
  • Isiboro Securé — Parque Nacional y Territorio Indigena · 11,918 km²
  • Madidi — Parque Nacional · 11,789 km²
  • Manuripi — Reserva Nacional de Vida Silvestre Amazónica · 6,960 km²
  • Carrasco — Parque Nacional · 6,304 km²
  • Madidi — Área Natural de Manejo Integrado · 5,580 km²
  • El Choré — Parque Nacional · 5,480 km²
  • Apolobamba — Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Nacional · 4,372 km²
  • Amboró — Parque Nacional · 4,029 km²
  • Pilón Lajas — Reserva de la Biósfera y Territorio Indígena · 3,556 km²
  • Tunari — Parque Nacional · 2,996 km²
  • El Choré — Área Natural de Manejo Integrado · 2,254 km²
  • Amboró — Área Natural de Manejo Integrado · 1,590 km²
  • Iñao — Área Natural de Manejo Integrado · 1,558 km²
  • Estación Biológica del Beni — Reserva de la Biósfera · 1,245 km²
  • Iñao — Parque Nacional · 827 km²
  • El Palmar — Área Natural de Manejo Integrado · 547 km²
  • Cotapata — Área Natural de Manejo Integrado · 356 km²
  • Cotapata — Parque Nacional · 207 km²
  • Toro Toro — Parque Nacional · 153 km²

Indigenous territories with a page (93 largest of 155)

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