Discover Cordillera: Landscape and Fiesta in Cuevo

Discover Cordillera through its striking landscape contrasts. Between the Incahuasi mountain ranges and semi-desert areas that give way to the dry Chaco forest lie Cajones de Abapó and Quebrada de Cuevo, known for their exceptional scenic beauty. Mountain ranges, semi-desert areas, and the transition to dry Chaco forest thus shape the landscape of Provincia Cordillera. When choosing a vacation rental, the landscape features that matter most to your travel group can be a useful starting point for deciding where to spend your vacation.

Landscape Features of Serranía Sararenda

Serranía Sararenda also gives the landscape of Provincia Cordillera a distinct character. Chorro de La Planchada and Laguna de Camatindy are landscape features of the Serranía Sararenda departmental wildlife protection area. The protected area lies within municipalities in Provincia Cordillera. As a waterfall and a lagoon, these two natural features represent different types of landscape. If you are planning a family trip, you can decide together whether you are more interested in individual natural features such as a waterfall and lagoon, or in broader landscape forms between the mountains and the dry Chaco.

A Fiesta in Cuevo

In Cuevo, the Fiesta Nacional del Asado Criollo is one of the events that attracts visitors. This adds a specific event to your landscape interests. When planning a family trip, it may help to weigh these separately: What role should the landscape play, and how important is the Fiesta to your travel plans? This can help you decide whether your trip should focus mainly on landscape or also be shaped by the event.

In the Wider Destination of Santa Cruz

Within the wider destination of Santa Cruz, Valles Cruceños offers a distinctive regional landscape. It covers about 13,000 km² and lies at elevations between 1,200 and 2,000 meters. It includes the provinces of Florida, Vallegrande, and Caballero in the Departamento de Santa Cruz. Valles Cruceños is home to inter-Andean dry forest, Bolivian-Tucuman forest, serrano Chaco, subtropical rainforest, and Puna vegetation. For choosing where to stay, this is a different scale from the specific landscape features of Provincia Cordillera: the focus here is on a vast natural region and the diversity of its vegetation.

The Área Protegida de los Valles Cruceños is reported to be home to 374 bird species, including the endemic red-fronted macaw and the Andean condor. Noel Kempff Mercado National Park is also part of the broader natural landscape of Santa Cruz. It is home to viable populations of numerous vertebrate species that are globally endangered or threatened. The park encompasses evergreen rainforests, palm forests, Cerrado, swamps, savannas, gallery forests, and semi-evergreen dry forests. Valles Cruceños and the national park thus offer different regional nature themes within the wider destination of Santa Cruz.

Chiquitano culture is also part of this broader Santa Cruz context. It developed mainly in Chiquitanía in the Departamento de Santa Cruz and brings together the traditions of the Indigenous Chiquitano people with Jesuit influence, introduced in the 17th and 18th centuries. If you would like to broaden your travel interests beyond landscapes and nature, this cultural history offers a distinct historical point of reference within the wider destination.

More Places in Cordillera

For a broader look at Cordillera, you can also discover Pozo Colorado and Camiri.

Discover More Destinations

Discover more destinations: Ignacio Warnes, Ñuflo De Chávez, Vallegrande, Florida Province, Provincia de Germán Busch, Andrés Ibáñez.

Go to the wider travel overview: Santa Cruz.