Bolivia (República de Bolivia) is a presidential republic located in central-western South America, it's a landlocked country and bordered to the north and to the east with Brazil, to the south with Paraguay and Argentina, to the west with Chile and Peru. Squeezed between the Tropic of Capricorn and the 10° parallel South, Bolivia presents a remarkable diversity of landscapes, the western areas are characterized by the Bolivian highlands and the cordillera of the Andes, while the eastern areas are formed by the plains of the Amazon forest and the Chaco.

The Bolivian plateau has an average altitude of 3 700 meters and is surrounded by the Cordillera Occidental, along the border with Chile, where is the highest mountain in the country, the Nevado de Sajama that reaches 6 542 metres, and the Cordillera Oriental, which in the Cordillera Real exceeds 6000 metres, with the peaks of Illampu (6 485 meters) and Illimani (6 322 metres). The plateau is dotted with lake basins including lakes Poopó (2 800 sq km) and Titicaca (8 300 sq km), the latter divided between Bolivia and Peru, at an altitude of 3 810 metres, is the largest lake in South America and the highest navigable lake in the world. In the south-west is also of the Salar de Uyuni, a huge desert of salt (12 000 square kilometres), located at 3 650 meters od altitude, which represents the largest expanse of the salty in the world.