Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
There are great views from the restaurants 7km to 10km west of town where you can
sample local fish dishes.
To reach the gorge, you can take any Tarija-bound transportation, or taxi to the
tranca
and hitch or walk from there (as usual, weekends are the best time to hitchhike). Where
the road forks, bear right and continue another 2km to the mouth of the gorge.
RESERVA PRIVADA DE PATRIMONIO NATURAL
DE CORBALÁN
This private 18-sq-km reserve on the Paraguayan border was established in 1996 to protect a choice piece of Gran
Chaco. Jaguars, pumas, tapirs, giant anteaters and giant armadillos are found here, though you'll more likely see
Azara's fox, the three-banded armadillo and birds such as the blue-fronted Amazon parrot and Chaco chachalaca.
The only access route is a poor road from Villamontes, which takes at least four hours with a good vehicle. If you
plan to visit, accommodations are limited to a simple
park rangers' camp
, and you need to bring your own food,
water and other supplies. The only commercial access is with Viva Tours (
Click here
)
and Prometa (
Click here
).
Camiri
3 / POP 31,000 / ELEV 825M
This town is the most southerly point on the vaguely defined 'Che Trail', which ends in
Vallegrande. However, Camiri's real revolution occurred not when Che passed through
but in the 1990s, when this town of cobblestoned streets became the center for the produc-
tion of petroleum and gas for the national oil company, YPFB (known more simply as
'Yacimientos'). The town is so proud of its oily role that it bills itself as the Capital Pet-
rolífero de Bolivia (Oil Capital of Bolivia).
Sights & Activities
Cuartel-Museo
(
9am-noon & 2-6pm Mon-Fri)
Camiri was the site where the French intellectual Régis
Debray and Argentine artist Ciro Bustos, members of Che Guevara´s guerilla group, were
held and tortured following their capture. Debray spilled the beans on Guevara's operation
and Bustos sketched the group members for his captors. The site of their imprisonment
MUSEUM
