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  2. Lima - Wikipedia

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    With a municipal population of 8,852,000 and 9,752,000 for the metropolitan area and a population density of 3,008.8 inhabitants per square kilometer (7,793/sq mi) as of 2007, [64] Lima ranks as the 30th most populous agglomeration in the world, as of 2014, and the second biggest city in South America in terms of population within city limits ...

  3. La Paz, Baja California Sur - Wikipedia

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    La Paz (pronounced [la ˈpas] ⓘ, English: "peace") is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, with a 2020 census population of 250,141 inhabitants, [1] making it the most populous city in the state.

  4. Culture of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    The population of Latin America is very diverse ... the Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz (1990), and ... Celebrating the annual "Alegría por la vida ...

  5. Bolivian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Bolivians compose the third smallest Latin American group in the United States, with a 2010 Census population of 99,210. ... Most of the Bolivian American population ...

  6. Latin America - Wikipedia

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    About 70% of the Latin American population considers itself Catholic. [79] In 2012 Latin America constitutes in absolute terms the second world's largest Christian population, after Europe. [80] According to the detailed Pew multi-country survey in 2014, 69% of the Latin American population is Catholic and 19% is Protestant.

  7. Quechua people - Wikipedia

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    The speakers of Quechua total some 5.1 million people in Peru, 1.8 million in Bolivia, 2.5 million in Ecuador (Hornberger and King, 2001), and according to Ethnologue (2006) 33,800 in Chile, 55,500 in Argentina, and a few hundred in Brazil, have an only slight sense of common identity.

  8. Lake Titicaca - Wikipedia

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    Isla de la Luna and Cordillera Real. Isla de la Luna is situated east from the bigger Isla del Sol. Both islands belong to the La Paz Department of Bolivia. According to legends that refer to Inca mythology Isla de la Luna (Spanish for "island of the moon") is where Viracocha commanded the rising of the moon. Ruins of a supposed Inca nunnery ...

  9. Hispanic America - Wikipedia

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    La Paz Bolivia: 872,480 ... half the White populations of the Latin American countries studied have ... In some Hispanic American countries, the population of ...