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Official Name: Republic of Bolivia |
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Capital City: La Paz |
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Languages: Spanish (official) Quechua (official)
Aymará (official) |
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Official Currency: Boliviano |
Questions about Bolivian Medicinal Plants
Contact - Regional Coordinator: samerica@cieer.org
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Religions: Catholic, others |
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Population: 8,012,000 |
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Indigenous Population: |
World
Conservation Monitoring Centre - Threatend Plants
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Land Area: 1,084,390 sq km (418,683
sq miles) |
1997
IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants |
Number of Indigenous languages: 45
39 are living languages, 1 is a second language without
mother tongue speakers, and 5 are extinct |
Summer
Institute of Linguistics - Ethnologue, 13th Edition |
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Native Vascular plant species: 17,367 |
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Endemic Species: 4000 |
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% Species endemism: 23 |
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Total no. threatened:
227 |
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% Species threatened:
1.7 |
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Medicinal plant estimate: ? |
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