Amboro National Park
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IUCN category II (national park)
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| Location | Bolivia |
| Coordinates | 17°47′0″S 63°59′0″W / 17.78333°S 63.98333°WCoordinates: 17°47′0″S 63°59′0″W / 17.78333°S 63.98333°W |
| Area | 4,425 km² |
| Established | 1984 |
| Governing body | Servicio Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (SERNAP) |
Amboró National Park in central Bolivia is a nature reserve with over 912 species of birds, over 177 mammalian species including puma, ocelot, and the rare spectacled bear. Covering an area of 4,425 km² (1,709 sq mi), it is protected from human settlements, hunting, mining and deforestation, though problems with all these still exist within the park. The Carrasco National Park is placed adjacent to Amboró, and together the two form a larger conservation unit.
Amboró National Park is in the western part of Santa Cruz Department, at the "Elbow of the Andes", where the eastern cordillera bends slightly westward from its northly course. Amboró National Park protects parts of several ecoregions: Southwest Amazon moist forests, Chaco, and Bolivian montane dry forests and Bolivian Yungas at higher elevations.
The peculiar features of the geography of the Amboró park area determine the biological makeup, with a great variety of flora and fauna. The altitude in the park ranges from 300 metres (980 ft) up to 3,338 metres (10,951 ft) in the westernmost part of the park in an area called "Siberia". Most of the park has elevations of between 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). Annual rainfall ranges between 1,400 millimetres (55 in) and 4,000 millimetres (160 in). Amboró National Park holds some fine expressions of Yungas forests.
The area is bordered to the north and south by two roads that connect the cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. The southern road, built in the 1950s and once asphalted, was left decaying after the opening of the northern route in the 1980s. Today it has returned to gravel and dirt, limiting traffic and commercial exchange on south side of Amboró National Park.
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