Bolivia Emergency Phones

Police: 110

Ambulance: 118

To place a call from your home country to Bolivia, dial the international access code (011 in the U.S. and Canada, 00 in the EU.) plus the country code (591), plus the Bolivian area code minus the 010 (for example, La Paz 2, Santa Cruz 3, Cochabamba 4, Sucre 464, Potosí 262, Copacabana 2862), followed by the number. For example, a call from the UK to La Paz would be 00+591+2+0000+000.

To place a call within Bolivia, you must use area codes if you're calling from one department (administrative district) to another. Note that for all calls within the country, area codes are preceded by 010 (for example, La Paz 0102, Santa Cruz 0103, Cochabamba 0104, Sucre 010464, Potosí 010262, Copacabana 0102862).

To place a direct international call from Bolivia, dial the international access code (00), plus the country code of the place you are dialing, plus the area code and the local number.

To reach an international long-distance operator, dial tel. 35-67-00. Major long-distance company access codes are as follows: AT&T tel. 0800-1111; Bell Canada tel. 0800-0101; British Telecom tel. 0800-0044; MCI tel. 0800-2222; Sprint tel. 0800-3333.

Bolivian mobile codes: +591 1, +591 7

Bolivian cities City Dialing code:

Cochabamba +591 42
Cochabamba +591 44
Gotago +591 388
Guayaramer +591 855
La Paz +591 22
La Paz +591 2
Mineros +591 984
Montero +591 92
Oruro +591 52
Portachuel +591 924
Potosi +591 62
Santa Cruz +591 3
Santa Cruz +591 33
Surce +591 64
Trinidad +591 46