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The National Museum of Archaeology of Bolivia ( Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia) is the national archaeology museum of Bolivia. It is located in the capital of La Paz, two blocks east of the Prado. [3] Operated by the National Institute of Archaeology, a specialized agency of the Deputy Minister of Culture, it is said to be ...
Peru. Bolivia. The Peru–Bolivian Confederation ( Spanish: Confederación Perú-Boliviana) [1] was a short-lived state that existed in South America between 1836 and 1839. The country was a loose confederation made up of three states: North Peru and South Peru —states that arose from the division of the Peruvian Republic due to the civil ...
History of La Paz. Government Palace of Bolivia in downtown La Paz. La Paz was founded in 1548 by the Spanish conquistadors at the site of the Native American settlement Laja; the full name of the city was originally Nuestra Señora de La Paz (meaning Our Lady of Peace ). The name commemorated the restoration of peace following the insurrection ...
Bolivia is a unitary state consisting of nine departments ( Spanish: departamentos ). Departments are the primary subdivisions of Bolivia, and possess certain rights under the Constitution of Bolivia. Each department is represented in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly —a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the Chamber of ...
First ascent. 1898 by William Martin Conway, A. Maquignaz, and L. Pellissier. Illimani ( Aymara and Spanish pronunciation: [iʎiˈmani]) is the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real (part of the Cordillera Oriental, a subrange of the Andes) of western Bolivia. It lies near the cities of El Alto and La Paz at the eastern edge of the Altiplano.
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 ...
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace [1] ( Spanish: Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de La Paz ), also called La Paz Cathedral, is a cathedral and minor basilica is located in Murillo Square in the city of La Paz [2] [3] in Bolivia. [4] It was built in 1835 with a neoclassical architecture with Baroque elements.
The National Museum of Art, Palacio Diez de Medina is a museum in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. It has an important permanent collection of colonial paintings, including canvases by Melchor Pérez de Holguín, a painter 16th century and those of Gregorio Gamarra, a 17th-century painter. National Museum of Art in 1860 (in the background), during ...