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Historically, the best quality quinoa has been produced in Bolivia. The high-quality quinoa from Bolivia is sold in European, North American and Asian markets at high prices. Apart from being a major producer, Bolivia is also the world’s number one exporter of quinoa and fulfils almost 42% of the quinoa demand in the international market (Antonio, 2011).

The Bolivian altiplano is a vast basin lying between the Royal Cordillera and the Western Cordillera (Vacher, 1998). It consists of a series of plateaus covering an area of 70,000 km², whose altitudes vary from 3700 to 4100 m, and a secondary mountain range whose summits reach up to 5000 m (Geerts et al., 2006). More than 35,000 hectares of quinoa have been cultivated throughout the Bolivian altiplano. The main cultivation areas are in La Paz, in the provinces of Aroma and Gualberto Villaroel, in Oruro, in the region of Salinas de Garci Mendoza in the province of Ladislao Cabrera, and in Potosí, which includes the region of Llica in the Province of Daniel Campos and the Province of Nor Lípez, one of the areas producing high-quality quinoa (Rojas et al., 2004).