Torotoro National Park facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Torotoro National Park |
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IUCN Category II (National Park)
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Torotoro Canyon
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 Torotoro National Park
Location in Bolivia
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| Area | 165 km2 |
| Established | National Park 1989 |
Torotoro National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Torotoro) is a national park and town in Bolivia. The town was founded about 250 years ago by the Quechuas and the Spanish. It is located in the eastern mountain ranges of the South American Andes cordilleras in the area of Potosí.
Geography
Torotoro National Park was established in 1989. It is situated in the northern Potosí department, 140 km south of Cochabamba. It covers 165 km2, in a semi-arid landscape at altitudes between 2000 and 3500m above sea level, with canyons as deep as 300 meters. It includes typical features of karst terrain like caves and dolines, Paleozoic and Cretaceous calcitic deposits with fossils, and landscapes eroded by wind and waters.
Dinosaur bone fragments and more than 2,500 dinosaur footprints have been found in the park. They belong to biped and quadruped dinosaurs, theropods and sauropods from the Cretaceous period 120 million years ago.
Llama Chaki, an archaeological site southeast of the town of Torotoro, has remnants of the Quechua culture.
Gallery
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Fossils of dinosaur footprints in Torotoro.
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Rock formations in Torotoro.
See also
In Spanish: Parque nacional Toro Toro para niños
