WELCOME TO MADIDI JUNGLE ECOLODGE - MADIDI NATIONAL PARK - BOLIVIA

Get in touch with Nature. We are located in the most biodiverse places in the Planet,
the Amazon Jungle in Bolivia.
Madidi Jungle Ecolodge is a low-impact rainforest eco-venture created and sustained
100% by indigenous families from the heart of Bolivia's Madidi National Park. San Jose of
Uchupiamonas is a Communal Land Territory (TCO Uchupiamonas in Spanish) that
spans 210 thousand hectares of rainforest within the Madidi National Park, in the
Bolivian Amazon.
The Ecolodge is accessible by a 3.5 hour boat ride from Rurrenabaque. Our Ecolodge is a
prime location for wildlife viewing and serves as the base for a variety of hikes of varying
intensities. We had designed the Ecolodge in harmony with the environment, rescuing the
traditional architecture of Amazon cultures, using ancient construction techniques and
local materials found in the rainforest. The cabins offer comfort and safety so that your
stay in the jungle is unique and unforgettable.
Madidi Jungle Ecolodge offers boat transportation, comfortable accommodations for a
maximum of 14 visitors and a menu of delicious meals based on traditional rainforest
ingredients. The staff are local, bilingual (Spanish and English) guides with passion and
expert knowledge about the surrounding rainforest. Our local guides will guide you through
the rainforest and take you down a diverse trail system where you can enjoy the Amazon
flora and fauna.
Madidi National Park is one of the most biodiverse parks on the planet, it covers a
surface area of 1.895.750 hectares (18.957 km2), and is a place scientists call
a "Biodiversity Hotspot". The Tropical Andes Hotspot has the greatest biodiversity of
endemic species on the planet, some 6,000 species of vascular plants and some 1,000
species of neotropical birds.
Rurrenabaque is an unforgettable beginning for the Amazon Jungle Tours. Madidi is an
ideal destination to see the jungle and be one with nature and the local cultures. Most
people visit Madidi Jungle Ecolodge on a Tareche Program 3d/2n or Wabu Program
4d/3n all inclusive jungle tour from Rurrenabaque, who likes personalized service and
seek a truly Eco-frienfly Jungle Experience.
A trip to Madidi Jungle Ecolodge will be the experience of a lifetime visiting
a Community-based Ecotourism in Bolivia.
Madidi National Park

The Madidi National Park and Integrated Management Area are incomparably beautiful
natural expanses that provide habitat to some 3,235 documented species of flora and
fauna that live in harmony with indigenous tribes that maintain their ancient Amazonian
traditions. Madidis magnificent landscapes are bordered on one side by the soaring
Andes Mountains, cloud forest and trackless lowland jungle.
The Madidi National Park and Integrated Management Area has the greatest biodiversity
of any protected area on the planet. El Parque Madidi is located in the northeast of the
country in the La Paz department (state) at the feet of the Andes. The parks altitude
varies between 5,600 meters and 180 meters. The park covers an area of 18.900 km2 and
beckons to nature and outdoor adventure lovers. The parks ecoregions include high
Andes, humid cloud forest, Amazonian jungle, sweltering tropical swamps, and
grasslands.
Madidi hosts an astonishing 867 species of birds, 156 mammals, 84 amphibians, 71
reptiles, 192 species of fish and hides dozens more that are unknown to science. This
amazing diversity represents 50% of the vertebrates found in Bolivia.
In Madidi has the most plant species of any park in the world, at current count there are
some 1,865 plant species and scientists estimate that around 2,870 exist in the park,
representing 27% of the total species found in Bolivia! Scientists have found in Madidi 31
plants that are endemic to the park and 92 that are found only in Bolivia. Scientists have
encountered three endemic amphibian species, one reptile, four bird species, one rodent,
and two primate species formerly unknown to science. Less than half of the protected area
has been explored by scientists and biologists estimate that an additional 700 vertebrate
species remain undiscovered inside the park.
Madidi Park begins 105 Km. north of Rurrenabaque. The entrance to the park is through
the town of Santa Ana and then transport is only via river. The park is also home to
invading Quechua and Aymara groups from the highlands who are competing with the
native lowlands tribes such as the Chamas, Maropas, Chimanes and Tacanas who live in
this sector and in the Abel Iturralde province of the La Paz department. These indigenous
communities (except the Quechua and Aymara who have come in the last 50 years) have
lived in the south and southeast regions of the park for at least 300 years.