Santa Cruz, the commercial and industrial hub of the eastern lowlands, also is experiencing rapid population and economic growth.

The eastern lowlands present an Equatorial climate with hot weather and rain distributed all year long.

The eastern lowlands and plateaus occupy 67.3% of the area.

Those affiliations had made him a divisive figure, raising talk of secession and demands for greater political autonomy in the eastern lowlands.

The eastern lowlands include all of Bolivia north and east of the Andes.

In the east, the sparsely populated, flat to gently rolling eastern lowlands called llanos cover almost 60 percent of the country's total land area.

This is especially true in the eastern lowlands.

The infection was most widespread in the tropical eastern lowlands, where conditions led to a thriving mosquito population.

Thunderstorms are common during the rainy season in the central highlands and the eastern coastal lowlands.

The bird may have survived in eastern lowlands until the 1670s.