Ulla Ulla Biosphere Reserve
The Ulla Ulla Biosphere Reserve was established in 1972 and covers an area of 200,000 hectares. It is located in the Franz Tamayo Province in the La Paz Department in western Bolivia .
The reserve is located in the Andes - Cordillera north of Lake Titicaca at an average altitude of 4000 m and borders in the west on the state border of Peru . In the north the reserve borders the Madidi National Park . The reserve includes high mountain formations of the Apolobamba massif , regions of eternal ice, high plateaus, tundra, lakes, and the source rivers of the Río Euichi and the Río Turiopa . The fauna of the region has significant populations of the Andean condor ( Vultur gryphus ), around 80,000 alpaca lamas ( Lama pacos ), and the largest occurrence of around 2,500 vicuñas ( Vicuña vicugna ) (1984 estimate).
The reserve is inhabited by about 15,000 inhabitants (estimate 1998), most of them belong to the indigenous people of the Aymara on. Due to the low temperatures, the long period of frost and the altitude above sea level, agricultural cultivation is not possible here, so the population lives mainly from breeding alpacas and llamas ( Lama glama ).
Ulla Ulla was recognized as an official UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1977 and has been part of the “ Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Nacional Apolobamba ” (ANMIN), which covers an area of 484,000 hectares , since the late 1990s .
Individual evidence
See also
Web links
- UNESCO description of the reserve ( English )
Coordinates: 15 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 69 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W.