Rurrenabaque

Rurrenabaque is a municipality and a small visitor metropolis of Bolivia within the Department of Beni, which is a number of the three locations maximum visited for its geographical place close to the Madidi National Park. The 2012 Census suggested a populace of 19,195 inhabitants. The urban location of ​​the municipality is 274 meters above sea degree, but within the place of the mountains of the Pilon Lajas reaches as much as 450 meters above sea level.

Rurrenabaque before the appearance of the Spaniards, become inhabited through jungle and ethnic Arawak , just like the tacanas and araonas that grouped themselves numerously to confront the highland peoples, who went to that place to trade merchandise together with feathers and leather-based for their garb, wood and medicinal flora. From 1560 on, Jesuit, Carmelite and Franciscan spiritual input the vicinity to evangelize together with civilians and infantrymen with the goal of settling down, finding a climate and a very negative area, confronting the original settlers who attacked them protecting their territory. They saw invaded.