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Community Ecotourism for Nature and Living Cultures

Welcome to Sadiri Lodge

As everything does, the project started as only an idea, which was born on May 5, 2008, when in the Great Assembly of the Indigenous Community San José de Uchupiamonas the proposal to develop tourism in the Sadiri Mountains  was presented.

Sadiri is a derivation of the Tacana word S’hadiri which means: “the old resting place”, which clearly makes reference to its location, the top of a mountain which can only be reached after a five kilometer uphill climb, and on the other side an even longer uphill trip from the Indigenous Community San José de Uchupiamonas, making it the ideal and almost obligatory rest stop.

The Lodge

Initially the idea of entrepreneurship planned to use the name of Madidi National Park, so it was called Ecolodge Madidi S. A. in the format of a commercial and private organization. However, because of the ancient meaning...

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Tours and Services

Sadiri Lodge is located in the territory of the Indigenous Community San José de Uchupiamonas in the northwestern area of the department of La Paz  and within the Madidi Integrated Management...

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Sadiri Area

Sadiri is a derivation of the Tacana word S’hadiri which means: “the old resting place”, which clearly makes reference to its location, the top of a mountain which can only be reached after a five kilometer...

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Community

The Indigenous Community of San José de Uchupiamonas is made up by 116 families, which represent a total of 750 inhabitants. (Source: PGTI Uchupiamonas 2009).

The Indigenous Community San José de Uchupiamonas is located in northwest of Bolivia, in the Department of La Paz, Province Abel Iturralde, within the National Park and Madidi Integrated Management Natural Area.
At eight hours by boat from the town of
Rurrenabaque and is accesible
by land on the 32 km
echological road from the town
Tumupasa and from the
Indigenous Community San José
de Uchupiamonas.

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