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21 unusual facts about Sucre


Club Universitario

In 2005, Universitario achieved 49 points in the regional league of Sucre, qualifying to the Group B of the Copa Simon Bolivar, finally the club ended in the first place of the group with 13 points, now qualifying to the playoffs.

In his debut for the Libertadores, Universitario tied 1–1 with Deportivo Quito at Sucre.

Club Deportivo Universitario San Francisco Xavier is a professional football team based in Sucre, Bolivia that competes in the Bolivian Primera División.

Dairo José Esalas

Dairo José Esalas (born January 27, 1974 in San Onofre, Sucre, Colombia) is a Colombian professional boxer in the Welterweight division.

José Clemente Maurer

title=Archbishop of Sucre

He served as Archbishop of Sucre from 1951 to 1983, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967.

Maurer was later promoted to Archbishop of Sucre on October 27, 1951, and attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.

Las Juanas

The telenovela begins when Juana Valentina (Angie Cepeda) finds out the man she always thought to be her father really is not, but a man named Calixto, who lives in a rural small town named Corozal.

Línea Aérea Amaszonas

The aircraft with two pilots and ten passengers on board had been on a chartered flight from La Paz to Sucre, when it encountered atmospheric icing conditions, thus being unable to maintain height.

Lola Almudevar

Almudevar and other journalists had been traveling to the Bolivian city of Sucre to cover political unrest in the city due to the approval of a new regional draft constitution.

Ruperto Inchausti

Ruperto Inchausti died on 5 December 2013, aged 95, in his hometown of Sucre.

San Onofre

San Onofre, Sucre, a municipality in the Sucre Department of Colombia

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).

A native of Potosí, Ágreda had fought in the battles of Junin and Ayacucho under Antonio José de Sucre, for which the Grand Marshall rewarded him as Commander of the Military College in Chuquisaca.

Sucre

Sucre's University (Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca) is one of the oldest universities in the new world.

Sucre family

Antonio José de Sucre, (1795–1830), General, Grand Marshall of Ayacucho, President of Bolivia

Antonio Jose Sucre, General Surgeon, La Floresta Hospital in Caracas

During the early half of the 20th century, another member of the family, José Antonio Ramos Sucre, had achieved fame as a great poet.

Sucre, Sucre Department

Sucre was home of famous writer Gabriel García Márquez and one of his most known novels Chronicle of a Death Foretold is based on real life events occurred in the town.

Supreme Central and Governing Junta of the Kingdom

In particular Quito and Charcas, which saw themselves as the capitals of kingdoms, resented being subsumed in the larger "kingdom" of Peru.

Tariq Hanna

Tariq Hanna is Executive Pastry Chef and partner of the Sucré dessert boutique in New Orleans, Louisiana.


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.

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).

Bolivian Declaration of Independence

On 6 February, Field Marshal Sucre - at the head of the Liberation Army - crossed the Desaguadero River, which was the border with Peru, and entered La Paz the next day.

Bolivian War of Independence

On November 11, the representative of the Junta of Seville, José Manuel de Goyeneche, arrived in Chuquisaca, after stopping in Buenos Aires, with instructions to secure Upper Peru's recognition of authority of the Seville Junta.

The Audiencia was centered in Chuquisaca, which started out as an indigenous community and later became known by its post-independence name, Sucre.

Colombian Tinamou

The Colombian Tinamou, Crypturellus erythropus columbianus, is a tinamou found in Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, and Antioquia in north-central Colombia.

Espriella

Miguel de la Espriella (born 1947), self-taught painter and sculptor from Sucre, Colombia

José Manuel de Goyeneche, 1st Count of Guaqui

In a few weeks afterwards he occupied the whole of Upper Peru, including the cities of La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and Potosí, re-establishing Spanish control over the territory.

May 24, 2008 violence in Sucre

The events arose from an announced visit from Bolivian President Evo Morales, during which he was scheduled to preside over the donation of amubulances to rural municipalities of Chuquisaca, the department of which Sucre is the capital.

Media Luna

In Chuquisaca as well as Tarija, Morales enjoyed majority support in the 2008 referendum only in the rural areas, while the capital cities (Sucre and Tarija respectively) had a majority for recalling Morales.

Pacific Rubiales Energy

Its focus is on Colombia and Peru where it holds numerous properties including 38 blocks in the Llanos, Sucre-Co Lower Magdalena and Cesar Valley, Rancheria, Upper and Middle Magdalena Valley, Putumayo Valley, Ucayali and Maranon basins.

Ramón García de León y Pizarro

Ramón García de León y Pizarro (born Oran, now Argelia, 1745; died Charcas, Bolivia, December 1815), was a Spanish military officer and administrator.

Samaipata, Bolivia

It is also the first stop in the several tourist trails to Sucre and Potosi, and the Che Guevara route.

Sucre Department

Sucre was named in honor of the Independence hero Antonio José de Sucre who was quoted by the founders of this department in reference to Simón Bolívar's death as saying "They have killed my heart", expression said while cruising the territory of the present day Sucre Department.

Televisora de Oriente

Televisora de Oriente, or TVO, is a Venezuelan television station that can be seen in the Venezuelan states of Anzoátegui (channels 5 and 13), Monagas (channel 32), Nueva Esparta (channel 8), and Sucre (channel 8).

Tolu balsam

Its name comes from Tolú (singular); Tolúes (plural), the name of the native precolumbian people that used to be the inhabitants at the same place where now is located Tolú, a small town and municipality in Sucre Department, northern Colombia (South America) by the Caribbean sea.

Uyuni

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