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.
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The information is unclear on how Heather developed but she was first noticed on September 18 1,000 miles southwest of La Paz, Baja California.
He spent his entire childhood in a house located on the intersection of Sucre and Junín, in a typical neighborhood in the north of La Paz.
Other stypes of pupusas are now made from rice dough, particularly in the town called Olocuilta in the department of La Paz.
In October the following year, at the age of 23, Tournant became the first man to go under the one minute mark, breaking his own world record with a new time of 58.875 seconds set at La Paz, Bolivia.
Augusto Céspedes Patzi (6 February 1904, Cochabamba - 9 May 1997, La Paz) was a Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist.
During this period there were three different governments attempting to rule Bolivia; a legitimate government headquartered in Chuquisaca headed by José Mariano Serrano, another headquartered in Cochabamba headed by José Miguel de Velasco, and that of Ballivian headquartered in La Paz.
Sucre will be acknowledged as Bolivia's capital, but the institutions will remain where they are (executive and legislative in La Paz, judiciary in Sucre).
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
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.
Celso Torrelio Villa (June 3, 1933, Chuquisaca, Bolivia - April 23, 1999, La Paz) was a military general, a member of the Junta of Commanders of the Armed Forces (1981), and de facto President of Bolivia between September 1981 and August 1982.
Recent records have found it in more humid areas such as Río Chucurí near San Vicente de Chucurí and La Paz.
It is a town that belongs to the southern suburbs of La Paz of the Canelones Department.
The winds receive their name after Samuel Cromwell, a sailor from the 19th Century, believed to be a pirate, who visited La Paz very often and, legend says, hid one of his biggest treasures on the beach that carries his name.
Daniel Nuñez del Prado (29 July 1840 in La Paz, Bolivia – 1891) was a revolutionary Bolivian doctor of medicine.
Dave Ekins (born 1932 in Los Angeles, California) is an American off-road racing pioneer having set the first Tijuana to La Paz timed run in under 40 hours aboard a Honda CL72 Scrambler in 1962.
Graciela Rodo Aparicio (born 1935 in La Paz) is a Bolivian painter.
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).
The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.
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In larger cities, such as La Paz and Santa Cruz, the government maintains small municipal shelters capable of caring for sex trafficking victims on a short-term basis, although some shelters limit services to girls.
Iván Guzmán de Rojas (b. 1934 La Paz) is a Bolivian research scientist and the creator of the multi-lingual translation system Atamiri.
The agrarian reform of 1953 had enabled a group of Aymara youth to begin university studies in La Paz in the 1960s.
La Paz is featured in the John Steinbeck novel The Pearl (1947) and mentioned extensively in his travelogue The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951).
These included the director of Crítica magazine Jorge Zalamea fleeing to Buenos Aires, Luis Vidales to Chile, Antonio Garcia to La Paz, and Gerardo Molina to Paris.
Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills a scenic 8×11 km (72 km2 or 28 sq mi) volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments.
Most of the Llanos de Moxos lies within the departments of El Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, and Santa Cruz.
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).
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Respected for his steadfast stance in defense of democratic principles, he died on October 19, 2005 in La Paz.
Further studies with Miguel Angel Quesada in Costa Rica, and later chamber music with Ramiro Soriano Arce at the National Conservatory of Music in La Paz, Bolivia, where she completed a piano degree.
Mercedes McNab and her fiancé Mark Henderson got married on Saturday May 12, 2012 in La Paz, Mexico in front of family and friends.
The architect Emilio Villanueva popularized the Neo-Tiwanakan architecture in the city of La Paz during the decade of the 1930s.
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.
Following the foundation of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in La Paz in 1907, a strong insurgency for musical movements in the main cities of Bolivia originated.
He was teacher of Spanish and literature at the Normal Canasmoro (Superior College of Formation of Teachers Juan Misael Saracho) in San Lorenzo and other various school and institutes of Tarija and La Paz.
The species was described as new to science by American mycologists Rolf Singer and Alexander H. Smith, based on specimens collected in Nor Yungas Province, Bolivia, on the road to La Paz to Coroico.
In 1533, mutineer Fortún Ximénez was the first European to land in Baja California, at La Paz, Baja California Sur.
Indeed, he became an elder statesman of sorts, serving as ambassador abroad and member of the Cabinet under José Ballivián, and Prefect of La Paz and Chuquisaca in his latter years (chiefly in the administrations of Jorge Córdova and José María Achá).
Sergio Daniel Galarza Soliz (born August 25, 1975 in La Paz) is a Bolivian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Sport Boys Warnes.
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.
TAM – Transporte Aéreo Militar (Military Air Transport) is an airline based in La Paz, Bolivia.
TAB was set up in 1977 as a sub-division of the Air Transport Management of the Bolivian Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Boliviana, abbreviated FAB) in 1977, originally operating on-demand medium to long-haul heavy cargo flights using a fleet of Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, which were based at El Alto International Airport in La Paz.
Currently, two local airlines are flying regularly to the city from La Paz, Sucre and Rurrenabaque: Amazonas and Transporte Aéreo Militar.
He was born in Potosí and was retired for several years before his death in La Paz in 2010.
The most notable cancellations include the concession for Aguas Argentinas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the concessions for Cochabamba and La Paz, Bolivia.
By 17th century, Andean women were the majority of the market vendors in colonial cities such as La Paz (Bolivia), Cuzco (Peru), and Quito (Ecuador).
XHBZC channel 8, known on-air as Canal 8, is an educational and public television station owned and operated by the government of State of Baja California Sur in La Paz.