Quinoa
📍 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 Quinoa 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].
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