Fifty-six large and small ranches dot the area with about 534 people. The entire Angel Sandoval Province, where the reserve is located, has 10,956 inhabitants. Recently the production of soybeans has increased. Soybean products are the main agro-industrial export of Bolivia. Some uncontrolled forest activities are common.
Tourism is extremely limited due to the lack of services.
New initiatives are planned to attract larger numbers of visitors. Eight hundred and seventy-four specimens were collected, and 409 species identified, while the rest were classified to the level of family and gender, with a few unknown. All the material was collected at the Herbarium of the Museum of Natural History of Santa Cruz. The dominant species in the different parcels under study are shown in Figure 1. Several development projects exist in areas within the Bolivian Pantanal.