La Higuera (Spanish for 'The Fig Tree'; pronounced [lajˈɣeɾa]) is a small village in Bolivia located in the Province of Vallegrande, in the Department of Santa Cruz.

It is situated in the La Higuera Canton (civil parish) belonging to the Pucará Municipality.

On October 8, 1967, the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was captured by the CIA-assisted Bolivian Army in the nearby ravine Quebrada del Churo, ending his campaign to create a continental revolution in South America.

A Frenchman has opened a hostel at the telegraph office where the guerrilla fighters made their last attempt to establish contact with the outside world.

Next door, Cuban doctors provide treatment to the destitute farm workers free of charge.