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Bolivia power grid

OverWatts maps 3,788 km of Bolivia's electricity transmission network across 89 line segments and 2 substations, the 66th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 3,560 km — 94% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 500 kV. That works out to 3.5 km per 1,000 km² of land — sparse OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 14% of mapped countries. It is connected to 1 neighbouring grid by 120 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 300 MW planned.

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3,788 km
Mapped transmission line
2
Substations
#66
of 153 mapped grids
120 MW
cross-border · 1 neighbours
500 kV
Highest voltage

OpenStreetMap coverage

Sparse3.5 km / 1,000 km²ahead of 14% of 153 mapped countries

This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Bolivia's network — not how much network exists. Large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone, and every kilometre here is mapped length, so the totals are a floor rather than an operator-reported figure. 46% of segments carry a real line name and 64% an operator tag.

Mapped line length by voltage

89 segments · a segment is credited to the country containing its midpoint, so a border-crossing line counts once, on one side.

Cross-border links from Bolivia

120 MW existing · 300 MW planned · capacities from the Global Transmission Database v0.1 (CC BY 4.0), existing as of 2023

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Load against the network

2.8 GW
Operating generation
1894
km of line per substation
3.5
km per 1,000 km²

Where there is room to connect a new load depends on published hosting capacity, which most operators release only as their own map. OverWatts does not yet ingest those feeds, so these are the density measures the open data supports — generation and mapped demand against mapped network — not a headroom figure.

Operators tagged on Bolivia's network

Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 64% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.

How Bolivia compares · mapped grid by country

Frequently asked

How big is Bolivia's transmission network?
OverWatts maps 3,788 km of transmission line in Bolivia, across 89 segments, plus 2 substations. This is mapped length from OpenStreetMap, not an operator-reported total — where OSM is incomplete the figure is a floor, never a ceiling.
What voltage is Bolivia's grid?
Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 3,560 km of 3,788 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 500 kV.
How complete is the grid map for Bolivia?
Sparse — 3.5 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 14% of the 153 countries with any mapped grid. Coverage grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn the network, not how much network exists; large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone.
Who operates the grid in Bolivia?
ENDE Transmisión, DeLaPaz, San Cristobal TESA and 1 others are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 64% of Bolivia's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
What interconnectors connect Bolivia to its neighbours?
120 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Argentina, plus 300 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).

Elsewhere in Bolivia

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Network geometry: OpenStreetMap (ODbL) © OpenStreetMap contributors, ingested and measured by OverWatts · derived 2026-07-26. Counts every mapped line of 220 kV and above; the map layer draws the ≥380 kV backbone only, so it shows less than is measured here.