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2 unusual facts about Bolivian


Beatriz Canedo Patiño

Beatriz Canedo Patiño is Bolivian fashion designer, Beatriz Canedo specializes in Alpaca-based coats and suits.

Northern red-sided opossum

After close examination and gene sequence studies in 2010, it was determined that there were actually three different species in the Bolivian area: M. brevicaudata and M.domestica.


Abaroa

Eduardo Abaroa (1838–1879), also spelled Avaroa, a Bolivian hero of the War of the Pacific

Alasitas

In March 2011 Elizabeth Salguero, Minister of Cultures, nominated Alasitas along with two other Bolivian festivals to UNESCO for World Heritage recognition as part of the cultural and intangible heritage of humanity.

Alex Arancibia

Alex Arancibia Chavez (born January 28, 1990 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) commonly known as Arancibia, is a Bolivian professional footballer who currently plays for Liga de Futbol Profesional Boliviano Club Oriente Petrolero and Bolivia U-20.

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.

Arica–La Paz railway

Efasa is administered by Bolivian Railway Investors, a subsidiary of Antofagasta PLC, which owns the railway from the frontier between Abaroa and Ollagüe down to the Chilean Pacific coast ports of Antofagasta and Mejillones.

Banda Conmoción

The title refers to Túpac Katari, a Bolivian leader in the indigenous rebellion against the Spanish Empire in the early 1780s, who was executed and quartered as a warning to other rebels.

Bolivia maize varieties

The indigenous cultures that played a key role in the differentiation of the native Bolivian maize races were the Aymara in the north, the Sauces in central Bolivia, and the Yampara in the south.

Bolivia–Chile relations

Bolivian and Chilean historians disagree on whether the territory of Charcas, originally part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, later of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and ultimately of Bolivia, included access to the sea.

Bolivian river dolphin

In 1973, however, a fresh study concluded that the specimens from Bolivia had more teeth than the specimens from elsewhere and that the rapids and water falls of the Madeira River acted as a barrier, effectively isolating the Bolivian population.

Brasiléia

Not just consumers are turning to the Bolivian economy, but entrepreneurs as well due to free trade zone of Cobija (the departmental capital of Pando province and Nicolás Suárez).

Brazilians in Bolivia

Thousands of Brazilians who live on Bolivian territory near the border with Brazil are suffering the threat of banishment because Bolivian President Evo Morales, under the claim of guaranteeing his country sovereignty, wants to settle four thousand peasant families from La Paz and Cochabamba, onto 200 thousand hectares located in the bordering region.

Carlos Arias

Carlos Erwin Arias (born 1982), Bolivian football (soccer) goalkeeper

Carlos Erwin Arias

Carlos Erwin Arias Égüez (born 27 April 1980 in Portachuelo, Santa Cruz) is a Bolivian goalkeeper.

Cocalero

Its cultivation was prohibited by Bolivian law, except in the region of Yungas despite its affinity to the climate and land of the Chapare region.

CSCB

The Syndicalist Confederation of Intercultural Communities of Bolivia, a Bolivian farmers' union formerly known as the Syndicalist Confederation of Colonizers of Bolivia

Culture of Bolivia

Bolivian artists of stature in the 20th century include, among others, Guzman de Rojas, Arturo Borda, María Luisa Pacheco, Master William Vega, Alfredo Da Silva, and Marina Núñez del Prado.

Daniel Nuñez del Prado

Daniel Nuñez del Prado (29 July 1840 in La Paz, Bolivia – 1891) was a revolutionary Bolivian doctor of medicine.

Facundo Cabral

Bolivian Minister of Culture Elizabeth Salguero said Cabral's death saddened her because "you can not understand that there are people who want to do much damage to a man who gave so much as a singer, composer, and poet." "He was a philosopher, a fighter for social justice, and to die that way is very painful."

Graciela Rodo Boulanger

Graciela Rodo Aparicio (born 1935 in La Paz) is a Bolivian painter.

Iván Guzmán de Rojas

Iván Guzmán de Rojas (b. 1934 La Paz) is a Bolivian research scientist and the creator of the multi-lingual translation system Atamiri.

Jesús Alejandro Gómez

Jesús Alejandro Gómez Lanza (born July 18, 1979 in La Paz), is a Bolivian footballer who currently plays for Bolivian first division club Blooming.

José Milton Melgar

In 2006, he was appointed by the Bolivian Government under President Evo Morales as Minister of Sports, but he resigned a year later.

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (Reinoso, Spain, June 13, 1770 - Moraya, Bolivia, December 4, 1831) was an Argentine general of Spanish origin (considered also a Bolivian for his activities in Bolivia) that fought in the war for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile and Peru.

Julio César Hurtado

Julio César Hurtado (born December 25, 1983 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian footballer who plays for Guabirá in the Bolivian league.

Law Against Racism 2010

The first draft of the law was proposed by the Human Rights Committee of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies on 24 May 2010, the anniversary of an incident of racist violence in Sucre in 2008.

Leopoldo Fernández

A member of Social and Democratic Power (PODEMOS) Fernández was Prefect (Governor) of the northern Bolivian department of Pando from 2006 to 2008.

Lost City of Z

Using Google Earth, three scientists may have found the lost city in the upper Amazonian basin, near the Brazilian-Bolivian border.

Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas

Born in La Paz, Luis Adolfo Siles was the son of former president Hernando Siles Reyes (1926–1930) and half-brother of another famous Bolivian politician and two-time president, Hernán Siles Zuazo (1956–1960 and 1982–1985).

Mariana Alandia

Mariana Alandia Navajas (Tarija) is a Bolivian classical pianist who interpreted most of the 20th century Bolivian classical composers.

Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar

He then became Vice-President of the Bolivian portion of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, again under Santa Cruz, who was both President of Bolivia and the Confederation's Supreme Protector in Lima.

Mauricio Gonzalez Sfeir

Mauricio González Sfeir (born 1956) is a petroleum company executive and president of the Bolivian professional football team La Paz F.C..

Miguel Pisco

When Pisco left Estoril-Praia, the team included footballers such as Portuguese internationals Hélder Cristóvão and Paulinho, Bulgarian international Stoycho Mladenov, Moroccan international Aziz Bouderbala and Bolivian international Erwin Sanchez.

Nataniel Aguirre

Nataniel Aguirre (Cochabamba, Bolivia, October 10, 1843 – Montevideo, Uruguay, September 11, 1888), was a prominent Bolivian lawyer, diplomat, politician, writer, and historian.

Once Upon a Time in Bolivia

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.

Oscar Ichazo

Oscar Ichazo (born 1931) is the Bolivian-born founder of the Arica School, which he established in 1968.

Óscar Sánchez

Óscar Carmelo Sánchez (1971–2007), Bolivian footballer, member of the Bolivia national football team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup

Porvenir Massacre

In the early hours of September 11, 2008, a protest was organized by Prefectural authorities of the Bolivian Department of Pando, As a result of the ambush, near the city of Cobija, 19 protesters of the municipality of El Porvenir died that day.

Roberto Brunetto

He also played in Bolivian first division for clubs such as, Oriente Petrolero, The Strongest and Real Santa Cruz.

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.

Rugby union in Bolivia

The confirmed roots of Bolivian rugby go back to the 1960s, when José Pipo Viale, from Córdoba, Argentina introduced the game to Cochabamba.

Seumas Milne

Milne described the restoration of the sight of Mario Terán, the former Bolivian sergeant who killed Che Guevara, by Cuban doctors "paid for by revolutionary Venezuela in the radicalised Bolivia of Evo Morales", one of "1.4 million free eye operations carried out by Cuban doctors in 33 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa", as "an emblem both of the humanity of Fidel Castro and Guevara's legacy" and the transformation of Latin America.

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).

Tupiza

Legend has it that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their end at the hands of the Bolivian army near Tupiza, concluding their notorious string of bank robbery raids.

Víctor Hugo Melgar

Víctor Hugo Melgar (born February 28, 1988 in Tarija, Bolivia) is a Bolivian footballer currently playing for Blooming of the Primera División in Bolivia.

Vladimir Castellón

Vladimir Castellón Colque (born August 12, 1989 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football striker currently playing for Club Aurora in Bolivia.

War of the Pacific

Chile acquired the Peruvian territory of Tarapacá, the disputed Bolivian department of Litoral (cutting Bolivia off from the sea), as well as temporary control over the Peruvian provinces of Tacna and Arica.

Western Bolivian Guaraní

Western Bolivian Guaraní, known locally as Simba and Simba Guaraní, is a Guaraní language spoken in Bolivia, in the Chuquisaca Department north of the Pilcomayo River.


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