Chapare, also called The Chapare, is a rural province in the northern region of the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. The majority of the territory is comprised of valley rainforests that surround the area's main waterway, the Chapare River, which is also a tributary of the Amazon River. The principal town is Villa Tunari, a popular Bolivian tourist destination. This article is about political regions. ... Cochabamba is a department in Bolivia. ... Length >6,400 km Elevation of the source 5,597 m Average discharge 219,000 m³/s Area watershed 6,915,000 km² Origin  Nevado Mismi Mouth  Atlantic Ocean Basin countries Brazil (62. ...

In recent decades, the Chapare has become a haven for the illegal cultivation of the coca plant, which can be used to produce cocaine. This is due to Bolivian drug law, which until recently only permitted the Yungas region to legally grow coca, despite the Chapare being a historical area for growth due to its fertility. For this reason, the Chapare has been a primary target for coca eradication in recent years, with frequent and heated clashes between the Drug Enforcement Agency and Bolivian cocaleros. The law has since been changed by a deal that was struck between Evo Morales (a Bolivian coca activist) and former Bolivian President Carlos Mesa which permits the region to grow a limited amount of coca every year [1]. Binomial name Erythroxylum coca Lam. ... Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... The Yungas is an area in the eastern piedmont of the Andes Mountains, primarily in Bolivia. ... Coca eradication is a strategy strongly promoted by the U.S. government as part of its War on Drugs to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are used in the manufacture of cocaine. ... Since 1973, the DEA has enforced the drug laws in the United States. ... Evo Morales Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959) is the left-wing leader of the Bolivian cocalero movement, a loose federation of coca leaf-growing campesinos who are resisting the efforts of the Bolivian government to eradicate coca in the province of Chapare in southeastern Bolivia. ... Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert (born August 12, 1953) was the President of Bolivia from October 17, 2003 until his resignation on June 6, 2005. ...

In Bolivia, the system of having provinces within departments is similar to the system of counties within states in the United States of America.