Santa Cruz, city, east-central Bolivia. It is situated in the hot, tropical lowlands at an elevation of 1,365 feet (416 metres) above sea level. Founded by Spaniards from Paraguay in 1561 at what is now San José de Chiquitos, it was attacked repeatedly
Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest lake navigable to large vessels, lying at 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) above sea level in the Andes Mountains of South America, astride the border between Peru to the west and Bolivia to the east. Titicaca is the second
Uyuni Salt Flat, arid windswept salt flat in southwestern Bolivia. It lies on the Altiplano, at 11,995 feet (3,656 metres) above sea level. The Uyuni Salt Flat is Bolivia’s largest salt-encrusted waste area (about 4,085 square miles [10,582 square km])
Bolivia(which is linked by road to La Paz). Puno is also the terminus of rail lines fromCuzcoandArequipa, which unite in Juliaca, and it is accessible by road and air. Tourism is an economicasset. The city is the seat of the National Technical University of the Altiplano (1885). Pop....