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12 unusual facts about Bolivia


Bolivian football league system

In order to qualify for the Nacional B there are 9 subdivisions at the 3rd level: the Departmental Championships or Regional Leagues, which comprises teams from the different Departments of Bolivia: Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Oruro, Tarija Department, Beni Department Pando Department, Potosí

Corocoro United Copper Mines

The corporate office was at 151 Finsbury Pavement House, London, England, while the mine office was at Coro Coro, Bolivia.

Desaguadero

Desaguadero, Bolivia-Peru, a binational town on the border of Bolivia and Peru

Franklin Herrera

Franklin Juan Herrera Gómez(born April 14, 1988 in Oruro) is a Bolivian football (soccer) midfielder.

Huara

The village is crossed by the Pan-American Highway and is the crossing point for the road that goes to Oruro in Bolivia.

José Luis Contaja

José Luis Contaja Vicente (born 2 June 1987 in Oruro) is a Bolivian football defender.

La Palabra de Beni

La Palabra de Beni is a newspaper published in Trinidad, Beni Department, Bolivia.

La Paz F.C.

Moreover, he is an articulate advocate for the proposition that Bolivia has the right—based on history, medical science, and fairness—to play international matches in its high altitude cities of La Paz, Potosi and Oruro.

Luzmila Carpio

In her early teens she moved to Oruro, and started expressing herself through her songs.

Mauro Blanco

A player from The Strongest he obtained a total number of nine caps for the Bolivia national football team in 1997, scoring two goals; both in a friendly match against Jamaica on 1997-03-23 at his debut in the Estadio Jesús Bermúdez in Oruro, Bolivia.

Rolando Ribera

Rolando Ribera Menacho (born March 13, 1983 in Trinidad) is a Bolivian football midfielder.

Son de los Diablos

Nicomedes Santa Cruz explains that, despite popular opinion, the Son de los Diablos has no links with African rituals or with the Andean Morenada, but rather it has a very slight similarity with the Diabladas of Oruro (Bolivia).


Amalia Matamoros

On October 29, 2009, she represented Costa Rica in Reina Hispanoamericana 2009 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, winning the Miss Photogenic title.

Ana María Romero de Campero

Father and daughter met in public service, where he gave an outstanding performance as mastermind and chief promoter of the OAS resolution in 1979 which urged Chile to give Bolivia a sovereign and useful outlet to the Pacific Ocean.

Andrónico Luksic

Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa (great-grandchild of Bolivian War of the Pacific hero Eduardo Abaroa), and a Croatian immigrant father, Policarpo, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.

Augusto Céspedes Patzi

Augusto Céspedes Patzi (6 February 1904, Cochabamba - 9 May 1997, La Paz) was a Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist.

Bolivia–Chile relations

Bolivia subsequently became dissatisfied at the arrangement due to the negative financial status of the national budget, especially after the earthquakes that struck Cobija in 1868 and 1877, the only small coastal town originally founded by Bolivians.

Cédric Anselin

He spent the majority of the 2001-02 season with the Scottish club Ross County before his career took him to the Bolivian team Oriente Petrolero.

Coro Coro, Bolivia

Coro Coro, also known as Corocoro, was one of the most important mining areas in Bolivia because of its copper deposits and was home to the Corocoro United Copper Mines.

Cotoca

Cotoca is a canton and Municipality of Andrés Ibáñez Province in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

El Chaqueño

El Chaqueño is a newspaper published in Tarija, Bolivia.

Emigdio Flores Calpiñeiro

In 1997 he was elected from Pando, through the proportional representation vote as a Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) candidate.

Eugen von Boeck

Due to the renown the school achieved and the fame of the illustrious educator that surpassed the frontiers of Peru, he received the petition of being the founding Director of the first private school in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1868: the “2 de Mayo” elementary school.

Eugenio Coter

On April 24, 2013, he was ordained bishop in the Cathedral Church of Riberalta by the bishops Luis Morgan Casey, vicar apostolic emeritus of Pando, cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and Tito Solari Capellari, archbishop of Cochabamba.

Francisco Azuela

He later served as Director of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of Guanajuato (1991–1997), and became the CEO and founder of the El Condor de los Andes-Aguila Azteca AC, an international cultural center currently based in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia (1999).

Gonzalo Galindo

Gonzalo Germán Galindo Sánchez (born October 20, 1974 in Cochabamba) was a Bolivian football midfielder.

Héctor Timerman

Timerman expressed it was a "grave incident" that the Iranian Defence Secretary Mr. Ahmad Vahidi was given a State Visit to Bolivia, whereas Argentina considers Mr Vahidi to be a wanted suspect.

History of FIFA

Under this proposal, Bolivia would no longer be able to play international matches in La Paz (3600 m), Ecuador would be unable to play in Quito (2800 m), and Colombia could no longer play in Bogotá (2640 m).

Howard Air Force Base

In February 2008, the production for the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace used the base to double for an airport in Bolivia.

J. australis

Juglans australis, the Nogal Criollo, a plant species found in Argentina and Bolivia

José Félix Aldao

After the capture of Paz, General Lamadrid took him in his retreat to Tucumán, and then deported him to Tarija in Bolivia, shortly before his defeat at the Battle of La Ciudadela.

Joselito Vaca

Joselito Vaca Velasco (born August 12, 1982 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian footballer.

Juana Manuela Gorriti

In 1831, when Gorriti was thirteen, the federal caudillo Facundo Quiroga forced Gorriti and much of her family into exile, so they emigrated to Tarija, Bolivia.

Kuntinaru

It is known from the holotype MNHN-SAL 1024, skull missing the apex of the rostrum and the paratype MNHN-SAL 3, second skull missing the apex of the rostrum, recovered from the Salla, Department of La Paz, Bolivia.

Mauricio Gonzalez Sfeir

He represented Bolivia in Junior Davis Cup tennis competition at the South American level (once defeating Ricardo Ycaza in doubles), taught tennis at the Welby Van Horn Tennis Camp, and played on the tennis teams of DePaul University (under legendary coach George Lott) and Oxford University.

Modesto Soruco

Modesto Soruco Saucedo (born February 12, 1966 in San Ignacio de Velasco, Santa Cruz) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder who played for the Bolivian national team in Copa América 1991 and Copa América 1993.

Nelson David Cabrera

Nelson David Cabrera (born 22 April 1983 in Itauguá) is a Paraguayan football defender who last played for Club Bolivar in Bolivia.

Ñuflo de Chaves

Today the Province of Ñuflo de Chávez in the Bolivian Department of Santa Cruz is named in his honor.

Nyceryx continua

Nyceryx continua cratera Rothschild & Jordan, 1916 (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil)

Pavonine Quetzal

In the central Amazon Basin its southeastwards limit is the lower two thirds of the Tapajós River drainage; westwards the Quetzal ranges to the foothills of the Andes, from very northern Bolivia, eastern Peru and Ecuador, and southeastern Colombia.

Phaqcha Mayu

Phaqcha Mayu (Quechua phaqcha waterfall, mayu river, "waterfall river"), also spelled Pajcha Mayu, is a Bolivian river in the Cochabamba Department, Arani Province, Vacas Municipality and in the Carrasco Province, Pocona Municipality.

Povondraite

Discovered at the San Francisco mine, near Villa Tunari (in Alto Chapare), Bolivia, in 1976, originally it was called ferridravite, for the composition and the assumed relationship to dravite, i.e., "ferric dravite" .

Puna de Atacama

In 1898 it was ceded to Argentina in exchange for recognition of Tarija as part of Bolivia.

Ricardo Pedriel

Ricardo Pedriel Suárez (born January 19, 1987 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football striker who currently is free agent.

Richard Rojas

Richard José Rojas Guzmán (born February 27, 1975 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football midfielder.

Ronald Rivero

Ronald Tylor Rivero kuhn (born 29 January 1980 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football central defender who currently plays for Blooming in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.

Rudy Cardozo

Rudy Alejandro Cardozo Fernandez (born 14 February 1990 in Tarija, Bolivia) is a Bolivian footballer who plays for Bolívar in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano and the Bolivian national team.

Sajama

Nevado Sajama, an extinct stratovolcano and the highest peak in Bolivia

San Ramón, Beni

San Ramón is the seat of the San Ramón Municipality and is situated in the San Ramón Canton in Mamoré Province.

Santa Elena River

The Santa Elena River is a river of Bolivia in the Chuquisaca Department, Nor Cinti Province, partly on the border of Inka Wasi Municipality and San Lucas Municipality.

Schinopsis

The species within this genus inhabit different regions of the Gran Chaco ecoregion including parts of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

Social Unity Uprising of September First

Social Unity Uprising of September First (in Spanish: Levantamiento de Unidad Social Primero de Septiembre) is a civic political platform in the Bolivian municipality of Achocalla, near La Paz.

South African Class 33-400

Of these, one was resold again to Empresa Ferroviaria Oriental (EFO) in Bolivia and the other two to Sociedad Química y Minera (SQM) in Chile.

T. aurea

Tabebuia aurea, a plant species native to South America in Suriname, Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and northern Argentina

TBI plc

In 2013, the Bolivian government led by Evo Morales nationalized the airports the company owned in Bolivia, through its subsidiary Sabsa (the three biggest airports in the country: El Alto International Airport, Jorge Wilstermann International Airport and Viru Viru International Airport).

Toco Municipality

Toco Municipality (also Toko Municipality) is the second municipal section of the Germán Jordán Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia.

Trans-Andean railways

Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles - ENFE, operator of the National Railways of Bolivia, and consultant Hagler Bailly, United States, have signed a contract to undertake an economic feasibility study into the proposed $US 1 billion 338 km AiquileSanta Cruz Railway (IRJ July p6).

Tsimané people

The Tsimané (Chimané) are an indigenous people of lowland Bolivia, living in the municipalities of San Borja, San Ignacio de Moxos, Rurrenabaque, and Santa Ana de Yacuma of Beni Department.

Turuncha River

Turuncha River is a Bolivian river in the Potosí Department, Agustín Municipality (which is identical to the Enrique Baldivieso Province), San Agustín Canton.

Villa Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos Highway

The Villa Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos Highway, also known as the Cochabamba–Beni Highway is a road project in Bolivia connecting the towns of Villa Tunari (in Cochabamba Department) and San Ignacio de Moxos (in Beni Department).

White-bellied Parrot

It is generally fairly common throughout its range and is easily seen in a wide range of protected areas, such as the Manú National Park and Tambopata-Candamo in Peru, Cristalino State Park (near Alta Floresta), Xingu National Park and Amazônia National Park in Brazil, and Madidi National Park in Bolivia.

Wichí Lhamtés Nocten

In Bolivia, the language is spoken in the north-central Tarija Department, southwest of Pilcomayo River, and in Cordillera de Pirapo.