A string of devastating defeats on the southern front of the war at the hands of the Paraguayans, who knew the terrain much better than the Bolivians (most of whom hailed from the Altiplano Highlands) precipitated Kundt's replacement by General Enrique Peñaranda at the end of 1933.
Galba truncatula can live at a very high altitude such as in the Northern Bolivian Altiplano (an area located between 3800 and 4100 m high altitude).
The film is set against a backdrop of the 2003 Bolivian gas conflict and was shot in the slums of El Alto and on El Altiplano in La Paz, Bolivia on a micro budget, using primarily non-professional actors.
The Titicaca Orestias (Orestias cuvieri), also known by its native name Amanto, is a likely extinct freshwater killifish from the genus Orestias, a group of fish which is endemic to the Lake Titicaca and other Altiplano lakes in the Andes.
He is a renowned Andean musician and composer, a virtuoso of the Quena (Kena), the end blown bamboo flute of the Andean Altiplano.
It originates in the Cordillera Real near the peaks of the 6,127 m high Ch'iyar Juqhu which is probably named after the Ch'iyar Juqhu River or the region around it and the 5,871 m high Qalsata flowing down towards the Altiplano.
Many Bolivians on the Altiplano and in two of Bolivia's main cities — La Paz and El Alto — depend on the partial melting of Andean glaciers for their water supply during the dry season.
Cuchuco is a soup made with corn, barley or wheat and mashed beans to make Colombian cuisine soup, especially altiplano of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments of Colombia.
six picturesque villages that make up the area of Baza in the Altiplano region.
Some places, (for example, the Altiplano in Peru and Bolivia, or the plateau around Asmara (where the airport is) in Eritrea, and some mountain passes), are many thousand feet above sea level and travelling to such places after diving at lower altitude should be treated as flying at the equivalent altitude after diving.
In April, the small rented plane in which Paz Zamora and a delegation of UDP politicians were traveling crashed in the Altiplano near La Paz, with the resulting death of all on board except the Vice-Presidential candidate.
He believed one was from the Quaternary period, and the other had ritual deformation in a manner similar to the skulls of the Aymara people of the Andes and Altiplano.
Sikuri (from siku "panflute"), a kind of huayno which is performed on panflutes, especially common in the Altiplano region (Peru, Bolivia).
The municipality is situated on the eastern slopes of the Kimsa Krus Mountain Range (Cordillera de Kimsa Krus) between the Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east.
It is a limestone female figure with traces of painted detail in a stuccoed surface that was found on July 22, 1971 by Francisco José Presedo Velo, at Baza, in the altiplano, the high tableland in the northeast of the province of Granada.
Between 1980 and 1983, through the presidencies of Romeo Lucas Garcia and Efrain Rios Montt, the PMA played a key role in the counterinsurgency operations in the predominantly indigenous Altiplano, where the EGP maintained its strongholds.
The altiplano encompasses the colder territory found at higher elevations, ranging from 1800 meters above sea level to the peak of the Siete Orejas Volcano, San Martín’s highest point at 3370 meters above sea level.