PDF guide, included with the Bolivia Pass
Settling in Bolivia: the practical guide and the Spanish you need
Paperwork, renting, banking and getting around, the four cities, Bolivian slang, and the sheets of the chapters in your pass.
- 41 pages of guides, cities and slang
- Plus the sheets of every chapter in your pass
- In English, French and German
- Edition of 27 October 2026
The guide is included with the Bolivia Pass: you download it from your account as soon as you have bought it.
What’s inside
What’s inside, part by part
Page counts are those of the edition of 27 October 2026 in this language, on A4.
1Practical guides17 pages
Staying in Bolivia: visas and residence · The foreigner’s cédula and the other records · Renting in Bolivia: alquiler, anticrético and the contract · Banking in Bolivia as a foreigner · Getting around in Bolivia
2Settling in: the practical facts3 pages
Housing · Papers · Money · Daily life · Health · Your circle
3City sheets7 pages
Santa Cruz · La Paz · Cochabamba · Sucre
4Bolivian slang6 pages
Greetings, address and politeness · Little words and reactions: nomás, pues, ya · Time, amounts and diminutives · Market, money and shopping · Food and drink · People, nicknames and regional identities · Getting around · Home, weather and land · Fiesta and free time
5Your chapter sheets
One PDF file per goal of your pass, each with the chapter sheets of that goal: from 105 to 256 pages in this language (Relocate to Bolivia: 137 pages). The whole pass gives you every goal’s file: 379 chapters in all.
6Sources6 pages
Sample pages
Three real pages, as printed
Printed from the guide exactly as you get it, from its public parts.
Practical guides, page 3 
City sheets, page 23 
Bolivian slang, page 30
Sources and updates
Every fact dated, every source named
Every block names its sources and the day each was read: 103 web pages in all, official ones first.
Official sources include: Migración · HCCH · SEGIP · Ministerio de Gobierno · Impuestos Nacionales · Derechos Reales · Banco Central de Bolivia · Ministerio de Economía · travel.gc.ca · GOV.UK · France Diplomatie · Ministerio de Obras Públicas · ABC · DGAC · NAABOL · Dirección General de Migración (Bolivia) · Autoridad de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero (ASFI) · ASFI · Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (gob.bo) · GOV.UK (FCDO) · Auswärtiges Amt · Ministerio de Salud y Deportes de Bolivia · UK Foreign
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Read this first
General information compiled from official sources, each dated. Not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules, fees and deadlines change and depend on your nationality and case: Migración, SEGIP and your bank have the last word.
One pass, the guide included
The pass opens every situation of every goal; the PDF guide comes with it.
Get the PDF guide with the Bolivia PassThe guide is included with the Bolivia Pass: you download it from your account as soon as you have bought it.