A cattle ranch in the Chiquitano dry forest east of Santa Cruz that stopped shooting jaguars and started counting them. The cats had always been there, taking calves; the decision to tolerate the losses and take paying visitors instead turned a conflict into a business, and San Miguelito is now the most reliable place in Bolivia to see a wild jaguar.
Reliable is relative. This is dry forest, not a river bank, and the animals are not habituated — sightings come from camera traps, tracks, patient driving at dawn and dusk, and luck. Ocelot, puma, tapir, giant anteater and peccary are all on the same ground, and the birding is excellent whether or not a cat appears.
It is a stay rather than a day trip: several hours from Santa Cruz on the road towards San Ramón and Concepción, in Ñuflo de Chávez province, and visits are arranged in advance through operators in the city rather than by turning up.
The pin here is the ranch's own point on Google Maps, confirmed by reverse geocoding to the right province. We have not found a website for the ranch itself, so arrangements go through a Santa Cruz operator.