Part of the Faculty of Agricultural and Husbandry Sciences of the Universidad Mayor San Simón. Aims to contribute to the formation of professionals in the fields of irrigation and integrated management of water resources, responding to the needs of the Andean region and Bolivia as a whole. Current research themes are:
- management of water at the river basin level in the Andean region
- water management and water rights
- demand for water
- irrigation technologies
- effects and impacts of the use of water in agriculture
- participative methodologies in the design of irrigation systems
- design criteria for irrigation systems
The Centre’s website is in Spanish and includes more details of its research and teaching programmes, and a list of publications. Most of the publications are in Spanish; some can be downloaded.