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Twice as big as France, Bolivia offers an incredible diversity. Altiplano, Llanos (the plains of Oriente), Lake Titicaca, Yungas, Lipez, Amazon. High plateau perched at 4,000 meters and surrounded by high peaks over 6000 meters of altitude plains are losing the confines of Brazil and Argentina, desert rocks and volcanoes where temperatures can range between + 20 and - 25 degrees in a day, the gentle valleys moist, it is not uncommon to start a day on a glacier at over 5,000 meters above sea level and finish at the edge of a river and in a tee-shirt. Bolivia has maintained a high authenticity, and when you come here for the first time we live an unforgettable experience. Rich people and cultures, harsh or mild climate, everything in this country at the end of the world is a hymn to the adventure, meetings and unexpected that become our best memories.
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Most theories suggest that the current territory of Bolivia was populated by nomadic tribes, which have crossed the Bering Strait to settle gradually throughout America between 10 000 and 20 000 years before Jesus Christ. Some other theories give a home to the first inhabitants Oceania South America. Moving north to south America, they would have earned regions of the Altiplano highlands and the Amazon. The first great culture emerged was the Tiwanaku civilization, whose formation dates back to the early first millennium BC. AD, in the extreme south of Lake Titicaca. Then she disappeared around 1200 AD probably because of a severe drought. Towards 1450, the Quechua arrive in the northern region of the country and relate the territory that is now Bolivia to their own Inca empire. They control the territory until the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1525, begin their conquest in 1539.
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In 1809, a group of revolutionary La Paz, headed by Pedro Domingo Murillo, proclaims independence of Upper Peru. From 1809 to 1825 is not just the fact that Bolivia war for independence but throughout South America.
Many wars are taking place throughout the continent. Spurred by such as Libertador Simón Bolívar, Antonio José de Sucre, José de San Martín, Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Gervasio Artigas, the South American countries get their independence.
That of Bolivia is proclaimed on 6 August 1825 after the victory of Sucre to ba size of Ayacucho, December 9 1824.La Bolivian constitution is written by Simón Bolívar and for him to honor the country takes the name of Bolivia August 11 1825.
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La Paz: city was founded in 1548 by the Spanish. That is the highest capital of the world.
It is installed in a large auditorium of the Altiplano, below the peaks of the Cordillera Royale, whose peaks rise to nearly 6 500 meters. The site, sumptuous and inconvenient, ranged between 3 250 and 4 100 meters. The city was born to the displacement of relay caravan on the road to Potosí: originally, the relay was on the Altiplano, beaten by the wind. It was decided to install in a valley longer safe and gave him the name of Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, which has remained name, abbreviated to the city.
During the colonial era, La Paz remains long a peaceful village, today it has become a large city of over one million inhabitants which coexist people downtown and the Aymara Indians of the hills.
The city has two parts. El Alto where the airport, which has become a huge dormitory city of peasants who left their land. Lowest, La Paz with the city and its business districts and residential and even lower, extending the southern zone with beautiful areas of Florida, Achumani the Rinconada or Aranjuez. |
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Cultural side, there are various museums, including the National Museum of Art, housed in palate Diez de Medina, known as Casa de los Condes de Araña, the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore which is installed in the Palace of the Marquis of Villaverde, the National Museum of Archeology Tiwanaku which has a complete collection of archaeological remains of pre-Columbian period. The museoTambo Quirquincho which is dedicated to the "cholera" (Women of La Paz).
The markets are part of everyday life in La Paz. The mercado Rodriguez, in the San Pedro, is very lively on weekends.
La calle Belisario Salinas district Sopocachi has a dozen bars, making this district the appointment of the inhabitants of La Paz. Jaen Street is the only place in La Paz that has retained its colonial aspect. Winding narrow streets paved among white colonial houses with balconies saillants.Comme all capitals, the city is noisy. There are minibuses everywhere, who honk and pollute. There is the market place of the cathedral, the witch ... It is pleasant to stroll through the streets of the center where there are plenty of shops and Andean life is very busy around the many street stalls.
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