More Than 100 Athletes to Race in Bolivia’s Skyline Tunupa

More than 100 runners will take part Sunday in the Columbia Skyline Tunupa, the fourth event in Bolivia’s national skyrunning championship. The race will take place in Coqueza, in Potosí, on Bolivia’s Day of the Pedestrian.

Skyrunning Bolivia is organizing the event with approval from the Bolivian Ski and Mountaineering Federation. The course lies in the municipality of Tahua, in Daniel Campos province in southwestern Bolivia, according to Paolo Choque, the organization’s director.

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For the first time, the 60-kilometer Ultra Sky and the 38-kilometer Sky categories will be held, along with the 28- and 10-kilometer promotional races, challenging the salt desert and also climbing Tunupa volcano, which stands 5,432 meters above sea level.

The event will feature athletes from Peru, Chile, Argentina, Japan, France and New Zealand, along with competitors from several Bolivian departments. For the first time, the programme will include a 60-kilometer Ultra Sky race and a 38-kilometer Sky race, as well as 28- and 10-kilometer promotional categories.

The runners will cross the Uyuni salt flat and climb Tunupa volcano, which rises to 5,432 meters above sea level. Tahua mayor Daniel Castro Mamani has welcomed athletes to the area, which Choque described as a place where the salt desert and volcano meet in the “mirror of the world.”

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The mayor of Tahua welcomes all athletes to the region so they can see the impressive place where the salt desert and the volcano meet in the mirror of the world.