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Dakar Rally to avoid Bolivia's heritage areas: official

Xinhua, August 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

The 2016 Dakar Rally will not pass through the heritage areas in Bolivia, Culture Minister Marko Machicao said Sunday.

The route in Bolivia, defined by La Paz and Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), the French company in charge of organizing the Dakar Rally, has been changed several times to minimize impact on the heritage areas, Machicao said.

On April 16, ASO announced that the Dakar Rally 2016 would be going through Peru, Bolivia and Argentina, and it will be the eighth consecutive edition in South America since leaving Africa in 2009 due to security threats.

The 2016 edition gets under way in Lima on Jan. 3 and concludes in Rosario, Argentina, on Jan. 16, after a journey through Salta, on the foothills of the Andes. Endi