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88 unusual facts about La Paz


1969 Pacific hurricane season

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.

1993 Pacific hurricane season

At 00 UTC July 2, the depression dissipated a short distance north of La Paz.

1995 Pacific hurricane season

Officials issued a tropical storm watch and later a warning for Baja California Sur south of La Paz, which was later extended from Loreto on the east coast to San Juanico on the west coast.

2013 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III

It will played on the week commencing 17 June 2012 at La Paz, Bolivia and it will be played on outdoor clay court.

Alasitas

The Alasitas fair (or Alacita, Alacitas, Alasita; Spanish: Feria de las Alasitas) is an annual month-long cultural event starting on January 24th in La Paz, Bolivia.

Antonio Paredes Candia

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.

Jose Antonio Paredes Candia was born on July 10 of 1924 in the city of La Paz in a well-known political and intellectual family of Bolivia.

Antonio Paredes Candia (La Paz, 1924-2004) was one of the most prolific writers and researchers of Bolivia with over 100 books written during his lifetime.

Arepa

Other stypes of pupusas are now made from rice dough, particularly in the town called Olocuilta in the department of La Paz.

Arnaud Tournant

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

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

Aymara language

Most study of the language has focused on either the Aymara spoken on the southern Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca or the Aymara spoken around La Paz.

Battle of Ingavi

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.

Bolivian constitutional referendum, 2009

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).

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 Mesa

Weeks of escalating street demonstrations and widening disorder reached a peak in June 2005, as tens of thousands of protesters marched into La Paz.

Chacaltaya

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.

Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird

Recent records have found it in more humid areas such as Río Chucurí near San Vicente de Chucurí and La Paz.

City of Peace

La Paz, a city and the administrative seat in Bolivia, whose name translates as "Peace" in Spanish.

City Proper, Iloilo City

It was later transformed into a chartered city and absorbed the old towns of Molo, Arevalo, Mandurriao and La Paz as well the city of Jaro.

Colón Sudeste

It is a town that belongs to the southern suburbs of La Paz of the Canelones Department.

Coromuel

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.

The Coromuel wind is a weather phenomenon unique to the La Paz area of the Baja California peninsula and adjoining Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez).

Daniel Nuñez del Prado

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

Dave Ekins

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.

Democratic and Popular Union

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.

Douglas Farah

He graduated from high school in 1974 from the American Cooperative School in La Paz.

Emilio Villanueva

Emilio Villanueva Peñaranda (28 November 1882 in La Paz, Bolivia – 14 Mai 1970 in La Paz, Bolivia) was a revolutionary Bolivian architect.

Florante Condes

Unfortunately, he (22-4-1) lost his title on to undefeated Mexican Raul Garcia (23-0-1) via twelve-round split decision (scores 112-115, 115-112, 118-110) in La Paz, Mexico, despite scoring a knockdown in the final round.

Gastón Arce Sejas

He was born in La Paz, after taking private lessons of music theory, piano and viola in his youth, he began formal musical studies in 1983 at La Plata's National University, Faculty of Beaux Arts in Argentina, under the guidance of Argentinian composer Mariano Etkin.

Gerardo Yecerotte

After of training with La Paz and not be hired, the coach Félix Berdera, led to Yecerotte to Real Potosí, and he made his debut in the Primera División Boliviana.

Graciela Rodo Boulanger

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

Hamlet Barrientos

Hamlet Israel Barrientos Ferrufino (born 1978-01-09 in La Paz) is a Bolivian football goalkeeper.

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).

Human trafficking in Bolivia

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.

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

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

James Creagan

Following his ambassadorship in Honduras, Ambassador Creagan was asked to serve as a special Chargé d'Affaires in La Paz, Bolivia, during the summer of 2009.

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.

John Hatch

By the time he landed in La Paz, he had the outline of a radically different approach to poverty alleviation: a financial services program that put the poor in charge.

John Victor Murra

Following his retirement, he worked at the National Museum of Ethnography in La Paz, Bolivia.

Jorge Sanjinés

Jorge Sanjinés (born in La Paz, Bolivia on July 31, 1936) is a Bolivian film director and screenwriter.

José Manuel de Goyeneche, 1st Count of Guaqui

In 1809 he took command of the Peruvian royalist armies in Upper Peru, sent to suppress the revolutionary forces at La Paz, even though this province belonged the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

Jujuy Province

At the beginning of the following century, the railway already connected the province with Buenos Aires, and La Paz, Bolivia.

Kallawaya

They live in the Bautista Saavedra region, a mountainous area north of La Paz.

Katarismo

The agrarian reform of 1953 had enabled a group of Aymara youth to begin university studies in La Paz in the 1960s.

La Paz County, Arizona

The name of the county is the Spanish word for the peace, and is taken from the early settlement (now ghost town) of La Paz along the Colorado River.

La Paz, Baja California Sur

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).

La Violencia

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.

Línea Aérea Amaszonas

On 10 July 2001 at 16:47 local time, the two pilots of an Amaszonas Cessna 208 Caravan (registered CP-2395) carrying eleven passengers had to execute an emergency landing on a hill near Viacha, six minutes into a flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque, due to an engine problem.

The aircraft carrying six passengers and two crew members had been on a scheduled flight from San Borja to Rurrenabaque when problems with the undercarriage occurred, leading the pilots to divert to La Paz.

Luciano Suriani

He resigned from the position as Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia after nine months due to reasons of health related to the capital La Paz's altitude, at 3,640 metres above sea level.

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).

Respected for his steadfast stance in defense of democratic principles, he died on October 19, 2005 in La Paz.

Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (June 21, 1925, La Paz, Bolivia – October 19, 2005, La Paz) was the Constitutional President of Bolivia for a period of five months between April and September 1969.

Luis Amaranto Perea

He was named national team captain before the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Bolivia in La Paz, in a first-ever win in that country (2–1).

Luis Galván

In 1986 Galván moved to Bolivia to play for Bolívar in La Paz, but his stay there didn't last long, and he returned to play for Talleres in 1987.

Madeira-Mamoré Railroad

Gibbon's study concluded that a rail-road along the Madeira river rapids would allow efficient transport of goods from the Bolivian capital of La Paz to US markets.

Marcos Calarcá

On Tuesday March 24, 1998 Calarca was arrested by in Bolivia by the Bolivian police at the airport of La Paz.

María Luisa Pacheco

Born at La Paz, she studied at the local Academia de Bellas Artes, later becoming a member of the faculty.

Mariana Alandia

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.

Mario Pinedo

Mario Daniel Pinedo Chore (born April 9, 1964 in La Paz) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder.

Mercedes McNab

Mercedes McNab and her fiancé Mark Henderson got married on Saturday May 12, 2012 in La Paz, Mexico in front of family and friends.

Mexico–Philippines relations

She was again the guest of Mexico, in October 2002, when the Tenth APEC Leaders Meeting was held in La Paz, Baja California.

National Off-Road Racing Association

The first event, the Mexican 1000 (1967), began in Tijuana, went through Ensenada, and finished in La Paz.

Neo-Tiwanakan architecture

The architect Emilio Villanueva popularized the Neo-Tiwanakan architecture in the city of La Paz during the decade of the 1930s.

Nicolás Peric

In December 2004 Peric was suspended for six months by the CONMEBOL because he had tested positive for cocaine -he and team members would have drunk coca leaf tea before the game- against Bolívar in La Paz, Bolivia.

Oscar Alfaro

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.

Palacio Quemado

The Palacio Quemado is located next to the Cathedral of La Paz, and right across the Legislative Palace, where the Bolivian Congress operates.

The Palacio Quemado is a popular name to denote the Bolivian Palace of Government, located on Plaza Murillo in downtown La Paz.

Pauline Weaver

The discovery led to a gold rush and the establishment of La Paz, Arizona, now a ghost town.

Politics of Bolivia

Bolivia is divided in nine departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Tarija.

Psilocybe yungensis

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.

Quakers in Latin America

Quakerism came to Bolivia in 1919 through a Navajo man, William Abel, who sold Bibles and preached in the capital city of La Paz.

Rafael Romo

On 6 June 2009, Romo played in the CONMEBOL FIFA SA World Cup qualifier against the Bolivia, the first time Venezuela ever beat Bolivia in La Paz, largely thanks to an excellent performance by Romo, who made many excellent saves and kept a clean sheet.

René Ortubé

He is now director of sports institutes and services in Bolivian capital La Paz.

Ronald MacLean Abaroa

MacLean-Abaroa was the first democratically elected mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, and was reelected four times between 1985 and 1991 to this office.

Sergio Galarza

Sergio Daniel Galarza Soliz (born August 25, 1975 in La Paz) is a Bolivian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Sport Boys Warnes.

Skirmish of Todos Santos

Meanwhile the Military Governor of Alta California Richard B. Mason sent 114 recruits detached from Companies C and D of the 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers under the command of Captain Henry ("Black Jack") Naglee from Montery, California to La Paz.

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.

Spartium

It is one of the most common ornamental plants, often seen growing along sidewalks in La Paz.

TAM – Transporte Aéreo Militar

TAM – Transporte Aéreo Militar (Military Air Transport) is an airline based in La Paz, Bolivia.

Transportes Aéreos Bolivianos

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.

Valentin Abecia

He was born in Potosí and was retired for several years before his death in La Paz in 2010.

Virgin of Candelaria

She is widely venerated in South America and the Caribbean, where she is the patroness of Oruro and La Paz (Bolivia), Medellín (Colombia) (which was founded as Villa de Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria de Medellín) and Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) (which was founded as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez).

Wilhering Abbey

In 1928, the monastery founded a daughter house at Apolo, La Paz in Bolivia as part of a mission drive.

William Bemister

Included in the film were scenes identifying the then home in La Paz, Bolivia, of Klaus Barbie, former head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, and the first confirmation by a Bolivian law officer of Barbie’s true identity.

Women in Aztec civilization

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).


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

Celso Torrelio

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.

Lake Ilopango

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.

Llanos de Moxos

Most of the Llanos de Moxos lies within the departments of El Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, and Santa Cruz.

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.

Oruro Symphony Orchestra

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.

Rosarito Beach

In 1533, mutineer Fortún Ximénez was the first European to land in Baja California, at La Paz, Baja California Sur.

Sebastián Ágreda

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).

Uyuni

Currently, two local airlines are flying regularly to the city from La Paz, Sucre and Rurrenabaque: Amazonas and Transporte Aéreo Militar.

Water supply and sanitation in Latin America

The most notable cancellations include the concession for Aguas Argentinas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the concessions for Cochabamba and La Paz, Bolivia.

XHBZC-TV

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.