Lettuce
📍 BoliviaClick a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.
Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .
Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .
Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.
Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .
Where Lettuce grows in Bolivia
Altiplano (or Puna)
It is an extraordinary Andean plateau that forms a huge closed basin between the eastern and western mountain ranges of the Andes, reaching altitudes from 3,800 to 4,600 meters above sea level. It is a territory that presents a relief with mountains, hills, alluvial plains [Source: SEDALP]. It has a cold-arid climate, with sharp differences in daily temperature and amounts of precipitation that decrease from north to south. The average temperature during the day is between 15 and 20 °C, but with the tropical summer and the sun, temperatures can reach 27 °C; However just after dark the air retains little heat, at night temperatures drop drastically to just above freezing [Source: Wikipedia].
Interandinos valleys
They are located in the Departments of the central regions of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca and regions of La Paz. These are where the humid northeasterly winds are pushed up into the mountains, making this area wetter and rainier. The valleys that are within the Eastern Cordillera have mild temperatures and the amounts of precipitation are moderate with an average of 640 to 760 mm per year (Source: Wikipedia]
Oriental plains and Humid Tropic
It is the general denomination of the lowlands of Bolivia, covering a large part of the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Cochabamba and La Paz to the east and bordering the region of the Inter-Andean Valleys to the west. , with an average height of less than 400 meters above sea level.
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