Due to its exceptional biological diversity and cultural richness, Madidi is one of the most important tourist destinations in Bolivia, on average 7,000 tourists visited Madidi annually between 2004 and 2018.
Madidi promotes community-based tourism initiatives, such as San Miguel del Bala, Ecoalbergue Chalalán, Macahua (Shushe Janana) and Canopy de Villa Alcira, which promote nature conservation and develop quality services.
Several legally authorized tour operators have tourism packages aimed at Madidi, such as Sadiri Lodge, Bala Tours, Berraco del Madidi, Madidi Jungle, Max Adventure, Escorpión Travel, Fluvial Tours, Inca Land Tours and Corazón del Madidi.
Madidi forms part of the Rurrenabaque-Madidi-Pampas Tourist Destination which involves five municipalities: Ixiamas, San Buenaventura (La Paz), Reyes, Santa Rosa and Rurrenabaque (Beni); two national protected areas (Madidi, Pilón Lajas), five municipal protected areas (Pampas del Yacuma, Rhukanrhuka, Bajo Madidi, Ixiamas-Serranía de El Tigre-Alto Madidi, Tequeje-Tudaray) and three indigenous territories (Tacana I, Pilón Lajas, Uchupiamonas). The Tourist Destination is coordinated by the Sustainable Tourism Destination Council (CTSD), which brings together these stakeholders and carries out planning, promotion and dissemination activities for sustainable tourism.
The destination combines the experience of environmental commitment with culture and identity. It has been internationally certified as a Sustainable Tourism Destination by the UNESCO Biosphere seal, which opens up the opportunity to turn it into a model for the country and a fundamental pillar of sustainable development in the region. The tourism and natural resource management initiatives can be strengthened with the development of the destination and, at the same time, contribute to improving the quality of tourism products and services.
A Strategic Tourism Plan for the Rurrenabaque-Madidi-Pampas Destination (PET-DR 2018-2027) and a Sustainable Tourism Best Practices Guide aim to promote sustainable and innovate tourism and expand the current tourism options, as well as link conservation objectives with tourism.
WCS has worked together with Rurrenabaque Madidi Pampas
Legally established tour operators in Madidi National Park
Chalalán Ecolodge
The Chalalan Ecological Lodge has been built on the shores of the magnificent Chalalan Lagoon, combining elegance and comfort, using local materials, respecting the natural environment and rescuing the traditional construction characteristics of our community of San Jose de Uchupiamonas.
The design and distribution of the different facilities of our lodge has been thought and planned in every detail by us josesanos, taking advantage of the extensive knowledge we have about the benefits of the jungle. Walls of chonta palm (Iriartea deltoidea), interiors covered with mats, roofs with jatata leaves (Geonoma deversa) and hardwood floors, make the CHALALÁN Ecological Lodge an exclusive and incomparable place in the world.
San Miguel del Bala
We are a small community owned indigenous eco-lodge that offers a wide variety of eco-tourism packages that allow you to discover our environment and the Tacana culture, visitors will be comfortably accommodated in private cabins in the vicinity of Rurrenabaque. They will be able to enjoy our two eco-lodges, one next to the Beni River next to the community of San Miguel that allows our clients to explore the Tacana culture, and the other inside the Madidi National Park, where visitors can experience the incredible biodiversity of the Bolivian Amazon.
We are Tacana indigenous communities who have historically lived along the banks of the Beni and Tuichi rivers and within the boundaries of the famous Madidi National Park for hundreds of years. We have several ecotourism programs that vary from one day packages to 5 day/4 night adventure packages.
All of our employees at the Eco-Lodge, from the cooks to the guides, are natives of the Tacana community of San Miguel. Your visit will directly benefit the community as all proceeds go to improve the health, education and basic services of the people of San Miguel. You will have the opportunity to share the culture and nature of this incredible place, and see the benefits that the incgresos generate in the community.
Mashaquipe
Mashaquipe Eco Tours is a tour operator certified in Responsible Practices in Sustainable Tourism with the "GREN ACTION" seal. Founded and managed by a society of indigenous families from the community of Villa Alcira, we offer different packages to the rainforest in the Madidi National Park. Our local guides are experienced in nature interpretation.
The indigenous families who own this ecotourism enterprise have built ecological lodges with local materials, respecting the natural environment and its landscape, to receive tourists seeking close contact with the rainforest in Madidi National Park.
Sadiri Lodge
The main objective of Sadiri Lodge in the immediate term, being an economic initiative of the people of the San José de Uchupiamonas Indigenous People, is to fulfill the mission of saving an area of forest whose exuberant natural wealth threatens its very existence. In tropical forests, the equation is very simple, diversity and abundance are directly related to the level of precipitation - and the Sadiri Mountains have twice the level of precipitation of surrounding areas. The area abounds in species, flora and fauna adapted to the micro-habitat changes in the foothills forest. The Sadiri Range is an ideal place to protect species that depend on foothill habitat. But also, a few km below the southern Serranía Sadiri, a rainforest with a high level of diversity can be found due to the higher level of precipitation in the area. The result is a rich piedmont forest with a mixture of tropical species with adapted species, and some that only live in the thin range of the low altitude forest.
The infrastructure, conceived, designed, created and built in a traditional style, offers lodging in a comfortable lodge with 6 cabins with 12 beds, private bathrooms, hot water, trilingual local guides specialized in bird watching, and is managed and administered by indigenous people from the village of San José de Uchupiamonas, and only three hours from Rurrenabaque by land, the urban and tourist center of the Bolivian Amazon.
Calle Jaime Mendoza No 987, Torre Soleil
Zona San Miguel, La Paz-Bolivia
Zona San Miguel, La Paz-Bolivia
Casilla: 3 – 35181 SM
(591-2) 2117969, 2126905
Scientific report 2015
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