Bolivia Crop Calendar

It is an extraordinary Andean plateau that forms a huge closed basin between the eastern and western mountain ranges of the Andes, reaching altitudes from 3,800 to 4,600 meters above sea level. It is a territory that presents a relief with mountains, hills, alluvial plains [Source: SEDALP]. It has a cold-arid climate, with sharp differences in daily temperature and amounts of precipitation that decrease from north to south. The average temperature during the day is between 15 and 20 °C, but with the tropical summer and the sun, temperatures can reach 27 °C; However just after dark the air retains little heat, at night temperatures drop drastically to just above freezing [Source: Wikipedia].

Practices: The agriculture, limited few species, is little and holds to strong risks. The cattle ranch is based on the operation of native, bovine, horses, ovine introduced.

It has a semi-tropical, semi-arid climate. Northeasterly winds bring rain and humidity beginning in January; the other months are dry with hot days and cool nights. Temperatures and amounts of precipitation in mountain areas vary considerably [Source: Wikipedia]. It covers part of the departments of Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and Tarija.

Practices: The main crops are soybean, maize, peanut, sesame and bean.

They are located in the Departments of the central regions of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca and regions of La Paz. These are where the humid northeasterly winds are pushed up into the mountains, making this area wetter and rainier. The valleys that are within the Eastern Cordillera have mild temperatures and the amounts of precipitation are moderate with an average of 640 to 760 mm per year (Source: Wikipedia]

Practices: Agriculture is made with traction animal or semimechanized and the main crops are potato, wheat, maize, barley, oats and vegetables.

It is the general denomination of the lowlands of Bolivia, covering a large part of the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Cochabamba and La Paz to the east and bordering the region of the Inter-Andean Valleys to the west. , with an average height of less than 400 meters above sea level.

Practices: Agriculture in general is mechanized and extensive with crops of soybean, sugarcane, maize, rice, cotton, sorghum, sunflower, wheat, bean and potato; in Santa Cruz it is possible to make two crops annual.