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  2. La Paz - Wikipedia

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    0.827 (Very High) [5] Website. www .lapaz .bo. La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, [6] La Paz is the third-most populous city in Bolivia. Its metropolitan area, which is formed by La Paz, El Alto, Achocalla, Viacha, and ...

  3. Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    Bolivia, [c] officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, [d] is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government and administrative capital is La Paz, which ...

  4. Geography of Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Bolivia. Coordinates: 17°00′S 65°00′W. Topographic map of Bolivia showing (east to west) plains of Amazon Basin in green, Sub-Andean Zone in red, Eastern Cordillera in white, Altiplano in gray, and Western Cordillera in white, with Lake Titicaca in blue along the northwest border. The geography of Bolivia includes the Eastern ...

  5. Tiwanaku - Wikipedia

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    Tiwanaku ( Spanish: Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, about 70 kilometers from La Paz, and it is one of the largest sites in South America. Surface remains currently cover around 4 square kilometers and include decorated ceramics, monumental structures, and megalithic blocks.

  6. Geography of South America - Wikipedia

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    Geographically, South America is generally considered a continent forming the southern portion of the landmass of the Americas, south and east of the Colombia–Panama border by most authorities, or south and east of the Panama Canal by some. South and North America are sometimes considered a single continent or supercontinent, while ...

  7. Altiplano - Wikipedia

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    Altiplano. A map of the endorheic river basins that characterize the altiplano. In the north is Lake Titicaca and the Desaguadero River system; in the south is the Salar de Uyuni salt flat. The non-endorheic altiplano extends southward into Argentina and Chile. The Altiplano ( Spanish for "high plain"), Collao ( Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw ...

  8. Lake Titicaca - Wikipedia

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    959 [3] 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Titicaca ( / tɪtɪˈkɑːkə /; [4] Spanish: Lago Titicaca [ˈlaɣo titiˈkaka]; Quechua: Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world.

  9. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Map of Spanish America c. 1800, showing the 4 viceroyalties (New Spain, pink), (New Granada, green), (Peru, orange), (Río de la Plata, blue) and provincial divisions During the early era and under the Habsburgs, the crown established a regional layer of colonial jurisdiction in the institution of Corregimiento , which was between the Audiencia ...

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