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Cruz is the hub of lowland of Bolivia. The city has grown rapidly since
the 1960's and its local telephone cooperative offers a service that is
the pride of the country. COTAS was founded between 1958 and 1960 as the
Cooperative of Automatic Telephones of Santa Cruz de la Sierra* and today
operates all the services of a major telecommunications supplier. While
personal mobile telephones or celulares are extremely popular, COTAS
maintains a large number of streetside public telephones and many of these
are now kept in large fibreglass depictions of the tropical fauna. From
left to right above there is a toucan, a jaguar, a red blue and green macaw,
a heron and a hyacinth macaw. These giant beasts are attractive, practical
and maintain public awareness of the value of Bolivia's tropical wildlife. |
