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Travel to Bolivia: Samaipata
Distance from Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 120 km
Altitude: 1.640m
Main service center in the region that offers visitors rest in a colonial style and pleasantly cool climate. Water rivers, which rush in small waterfalls are natural spas.
Hospitality of its residents is worthy of note for those who wish to tour the countryside and find the center of rock architecture’s most important pre-Hispanic South America: Fort Samaipata.
This archaeological monument is located 6 km from Samaipata and is one of the most important pre-Columbian times in Bolivia. At an altitude of 1949m on the slopes of a hill of sandstone, in which ancient cultures have sculpted figures varied. Zoomorphic excel (snakes and pumas). There are also pipes and water tanks, seats, triangular, rectangular niches.
This is an extraordinary and mysterious whose origins and meaning are still a cause for study. These remnants of a native culture from the lowlands have been added to clear buildings Andean origin.