A COCA LEAF RESEARCH CENTER with three main goals: Research and Education on Coca Plants, Conservation of the Mother Earth and Integrative Medicine.
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- The coca plant has led the most important change in the history of medicine: Cocaine was the first drug that allowed the surgery painless and gave energy to launch the industrial era powered by Coca Cola..
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- Coca: The best aphrodisiac. Coca increases sexual desire and potency notoriously. This Ecuadorian statuette, shown in the museum, was made by the Capuli culture thousands years ago
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- Ancient coca plantation. Coca Wasi has witnessed the history of the coca plant. In this same place the Incas cultivated the Mamacoca.
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- Organic Coca Leaf Production.
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- The legend of Coca, centuries ago glimpses the true story of coca now unveiled in COCA WASI.
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- Coca derivatives for sale. Coca sweets, Coca liquour are available now here at Coca Wasi.
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- Coca: Fountain of youth.Procaine: The synthetic derivative of cocaine, is the imperative component of geriatric tonics, such as Zellaforte, Lipogeron H3 or simply Procaine capsules called KH3
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- The historical house of coca.Old house made of clay in the late 19th century has witnessed profound changes in the history of coca. Each wall is a huge block made of clay and straw and has a thickness of 60 cms. Today houses the COCA EXPO open visitors.
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- The famous trip by bike along the DEATH ROAD also leads to Coca Wasi. You will find the Historic House of coca at the end of your tour, where you can build up energy getting legal Coca derivatives.
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- Coca plantation in Coroico. Yungas. According to the new agricultural techniques.
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- Volunteer Work. There is lot work if you decide to collaborate with us: There are ancient coca plantations that need care. It is urgently to find a way to handle pests, the entomologist got a lot of work trying to understand how to restore equilibrium of life shattered by the pesticides.
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- COCA WASI is the NEW EXTENSION of the Museo de la Coca. La Paz Bolivia. linares street 906. for visitors at La Paz City.
EDUCATION:
COCA INQUISITION EXPO
The secret history of the coca plant persecution since the begining of capitalism in Potosi at 1545 up to Coca Cola in the XXI century and the monopoly on legal cocaine.
COCA EXPO fills one of the main objetives of Coca Wasi: to EDUCATE people about the real history of the coca plant and a better way to live.
Coca Wasi offers you the chance to know and understand the world of coca: its beneficial effects to the human body, stimulating power, food, healing and aphrodisiac effects.
You can learn to “akullicar” or chew coca, as did the Incas or know the stimulatory effect of this plant savoring our coca sweets, coca liqueur, coca flour, and other legal derivatives of the coca plant.
“Coca Wasi” a Quechua word meaning the House of Coca, is the only place in Bolivia where you can meet a real coca plantation, considered sacred by almost all Andean cultures.
Here, the Incas cultivated the coca plant since five thousands years ago.Agriculture of the sacred plant of the Incas is a knowledge acquired through millennia, but now at your fingertips just minutes from the town of Coroico at two hours from La Paz.
How to arrive?
It is located near Coroico in the Andean foothills, stretching from the Amazon, known as the Yungas.
COCA WASI: View from COROICO
If you are coming by bus o taxi (two hours from La Paz by the New Road) you will first arrive Coroico where you can ask a taxi (it will charge you 10 $us for 5 persons).) The New Road with fantastics views is all paved .
If you come by bike, like many, you will see on your right COCA WASI, 10 minutes before the end of your journey through the The Death Road.
CONTACT: Phone: 591 69851999 69852255
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