About the Coroico Village

COROICO is a Bolivian village situated 100km from La Paz and is the capital of the province Nor Yungas.

It has a temperate to warm/hot climate depending on the season and is one of the principal tourist destinations of the provinces of La Paz.

The population is a mix of aymaras (indigenous peoples), afro-bolivianos, mestizos and foreigners.
The town has all necessary amenities, also the town itself is picturesque and one can appreciate from whatever point the majestic mountains.

Some minutes away in an automobile and an hour walk, you will find yourself along the flowing veins of mother nature's Black rivers and Coriguayo.
Also you can enjoy the surrounding furtile energy of the coca, banana, coffee and citric fruit plantations, which are the means of survival for this region, along with tourism too.

The Afro-Bolivian community Tocaña is located near this area.

To arrive at Coroico from La Paz:

· Take the normal highway

· Take the famous highway "The Highway of the Dead" with breathtaking views and panoramas.

· Walk following the precolombian tourist path "El Choro" that last 3 days.


The Yungas is a region of Bolivia located to the northeast from the city of La Paz.
It's situated at the downhills of the eastern cordillera of the Andes towards the amazonian basin with a varied altitude that varies from 600 to 2.500 meters above sea level.

Yunga belongs to an ecosystem that is characterized for being humid with fog and precipitation, also it's home to succulent green hillsides, cliffs, rivers, waterfalls, and exuberant vegetation.
Of the entire country, Yunga is one of the richest eco-regions that contains an abundant quantity of species of animals and vegetation. For example, the tapir, peccary (wild hog), agouti (rodent), otter, weasel, monkeys, jaguars, foxes, ferrets, coati raccoons, guinea pigs, mouse opossums, and birds.

In the warm Bolivian Yungas valleys it's common to see terraces carved out to cultivate coca, coffee, sugar cane, bananas, papayas, lacayotes (squash), lúcumas, amaranto (kiwicha), achupallas o bromelias (flowers), corn etc.

Ethnologically, the Yungas is the name given to mixed peoples of the region with melanoafricanas origins; who were descendents of African slaves brought to the Americas to work in the "mitas", the Peruvian mines during spanish colonialism. Later they estableshed themselves in the warm, damp and humid valleys of the eastern Bolivian region of the Andes.

See: "Volunteer in Coroico"

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