Riberalta

Riberalta is a city inside the Beni Department in northern Bolivia, situated where the Madre de Dios River joins the Beni River. Riberalta is at the south financial institution of the Beni River. As the capital of the province of Vaca Diez, the town has maintained its attraction even after the Brazilian nut exchange sparked current improvement. City lifestyles in Riberalta Municipality is punctuated via nature way to its region at the banks of the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers and its proximity to the Amazon rainforest.

The city is likewise known as the Bolivian capital of the Amazon. Riberalta’s name comes from the union of phrases in Spanish: “ribera alta” high bank in English. The metropolis turned into founded on February 3, 1894 with approximately 2,500 population installed in a purple canyon in Northern Bolivia. It is also referred to as the city of four names: Barranca Colorada, La Cruz, Ribera-Alta and Riberalta. Starting within the middle of the 19th century, solo explorers and navigators of the Bolivian Northwest penetrated the solitary jungle; They based barracks extra than thirty meters high, erected and blessed by the convergence of 2 significant rivers, which became the municipality into the financial center of the north of the us of a.