"SANTA CRUZplus MORE" Santa Cruz by pjallittle

Santa Cruz Travel Guide: 66 reviews and 135 photos

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Due to the paucity of cities listed for this SOUTH AMERICA country, I will certainly begin with a brief section on SANTA CRUZ whose emblem as one of the STATES of BOLIVIA. is seen above.

By the end of this journey, you may be enticed into visiting this very poor country, with an average income less than $3000.00 USD per annum.

Santa Cruz has long been reputed to be a drug trafficking center, but this is apparently on the wane. It's now enjoying something of an agricultural boom.

Over the past four decades,this big city near the edge of a retreating wilderness has mushroomed from a backwater cow town of 30,000 to its present position as Bolivia's second-largest city, with a population of over 1 million.

Though growth continues at a phenomenal rate, this cosmopolitan city retains traces of its dusty past. A hub of trade and transport, it has direct flights to Miami and Europe, but forest-dwelling sloths still hang out in the main plaza.

Visitors enjoy the tropical ambiance and frontier feel, and use the city as a base for exploring nearby rain forests and 18th-century Jesuit missions.

All of the statistical information essential to gaining an understanding of this country already appear on the Country page and shall not be repeated here.
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Intro Written Sep 11, 2002
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chancay Feb 28, 2003 at 12:26 AM

Hello! you did an intersting start of your page, just don´t understand what Cartagena in Colombia has to do with Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia. Btw: please move your page from depa Tarija to Santa Cruz de la Sierra in depa Santa Cruz
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D.POUTOURIS Apr 27, 2001 at 1:28 PM

gr.page
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tak_pap Apr 24, 2001 at 7:18 AM

One more time...impressive !
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witou Apr 18, 2001 at 6:25 AM

Interesting page, very nice pictures!