Bolivia belongs to those countries owning the biggest biodiversity worldwide. Moreover, the country owns very reach ancient cultures. Although all these assets offer a big potential for tourism, Bolivia does not play a big role at the international tourism market. However, the significance of this sector to the national economy may not be underestimated. The international tourism is for the country between the main foreign currency sources after the soy export and oil derivates.

During the last years tourism has been considered in some rural Communes in Bolivia, as possible potential development factor to be implemented. According to the principles of sustainable development this process must lead to the population welfare increment, conserving or rather improving the ecological stability. That means for the tourism, that its development must occur according to these principles. The sustainability can then be appreciated when it improves the population quality of life in such a way that still offers social security to later generations and therefore no irreparable resources damage will occur (Vorlaufer, 1996).

This paper handles the case study “Surveying Tourism potential at the Angostura dam and surroundings”. La Angostura is a water reservoir, which originally was built as part of a national irrigation system located in the Arbieto Commune in Cochabamba, Bolivia. La Angostura is one of the principal touristic areas of Cochabamba. A regional spatial analysis from the tourism point of view will be performed, together with empirical data research methods like expert’s interviews, fieldwork as well as GPS-tracks survey, between others. These investigations are being executed in order to know which culture and nature spatial factors exist and which role tourism is playing over there. Because of the different kinds and sources of information required as input for this project, Geographical Information Systems are used to support their different phases.