The evolution of about fifteen glaciers of the Bolivian Eastern Cordillera (16-17°S; 68°W), since their Little Ice Age (LIA) maximum till the late 20th century, has been reconstructed on the basis on ten main moraines observed on the glacier forelands and six aerial photographs. A correspondence between the moraines from a glacier margin to another has been established using geomorphological criteria. These moraines have been dated by lichenometry (Rhizocarpon geographicum s.l.) using a new statistical method based on the extreme values theory. Glacier maximal extent has been dated from the second half of the 17th century. Glaciers kept, until the first half of the 18th century, a quite similar position. From the 1730s – 40s, they began to ...