Qualla: Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory https://qualla.com/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/2/8/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory https://qualla.com/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory: Introduction https://qualla.com/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory/ Photo credit Anngel1usser, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2011, hundreds of indigenous marchers set out on foot from Trinidad, in Bolivia's tropical lowlands, bound for La Paz in the high Andes. They were walking to stop a highway. The road in question would slice through the heart of TIPNIS -- the Territorio Indigena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Secure -- connecting Cochabamba and Beni departments for the first time by direct highway. On September 25, police raided the march and detained hundreds of people. The marchers regrouped. By October 19, they arrived in La Paz to a massive public welcome that forced the government to retreat. It was a rare moment when an indigenous march changed national law -- and a vivid illustration of what makes TIPNIS one of the most bitterly contested landscapes in South America.

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/2/8/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory-wp/6t28-isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territ-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory: Where the Yungas Meet the Lowlands https://qualla.com/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory/ Photo credit Edunavia1, CC BY-SA 4.0. TIPNIS sits between the northern edge of Cochabamba Department and the southern reaches of Beni, covering more than a million hectares where the Andean foothills descend into Amazonian floodplain. The park protects a portion of the Bolivian Yungas ecoregion -- cloud-draped montan...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/2/8/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory-wp/6t28-isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territ-where-the-yungas-meet-the-lowlands.mp3 0:06 2 full Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory: Three Peoples, Sixty-Four Communities https://qualla.com/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory/ Photo credit Klaus Ehlers, CC BY-SA 3.0. TIPNIS is not just a national park. Since 1990, it has been formally recognized as indigenous territory -- Native Community Land belonging to the Tsimane, Yuracere, and Mojeno-Trinitario peoples who have lived here for generations. At the 2001 census, 12,388 indigenous inhabitant...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/2/8/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory-wp/6t28-isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territ-three-peoples-sixty-four-communities.mp3 0:06 3 full Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory: The Road That Would Not Die https://qualla.com/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory/ Photo credit Edunavia1, CC BY-SA 4.0. The proposed Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos Highway would run 306 kilometers in three segments, with the critical middle stretch -- 177 kilometers from Isinuta to Monte Grande -- passing directly through TIPNIS. A $332 million loan from Brazil's development bank made construct...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/2/8/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory-wp/6t28-isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territ-the-road-that-would-not-die.mp3 0:06 4 full Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory: Coca, Oil, and the Vanishing Forest https://qualla.com/isiboro-secure-national-park-and-indigenous-territory/ Photo credit Edunavia1, CC BY-SA 4.0. The highway is only one front in a multi-sided assault on the park's integrity. Since the 1970s, coca farmers have colonized the southern portion of TIPNIS, in a zone known as Polygon 7, clearing forest for agriculture. The Bolivian government has acknowledged that roughly 10 per...

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