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27 unusual facts about Tarija


1984 South American Youth Championships in Athletics

All results are marked as "affected by altitude" (A), because Tarija is located at 1,854 metres above sea level.

2012 Torneo Nacional Interprovincial

In this edition will comprise the champions of the nine provincial championship and the host team from Tarija.

Bermejo River

At its highest part, its main tributaries are the Lipeo River, and further downstream the Grande de Tarija, the Iruya River, and the San Francisco River.

Eastern Bolivian Guaraní

In Bolivia 33,670 speakers were counted in the year 2000, in the south-central Parapeti River area and in the city of Tarija.

El Chaqueño

El Chaqueño is a newspaper published in Tarija, Bolivia.

Francisco Burdett O'Connor

In 1826 Francisco O'Connor was appointed military governor of Tarija.

Francisco Vaca Gutiérrez

Francisco Vaca Gutiérrez (b. July 24, 1951, Tarija) is a Bolivian politician.

Gregorio Paz

Moving to Orán, he led a campaign from there to Tarija, where he obtained from the military commander of that place, Ildefonso Cuellar, a ruling against General Andrés de Santa Cruz.

Guarani dialects

Eastern Bolivian Guaraní, also known as Chawuncu or Chiriguano, is spoken in by 33,670 speakers (or 36,917) in the south-central Parapeti River area and in the city of Tarija.

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.

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.

Mariana Alandia

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

Marvin Bejarano

Marvin Orlando Bejarano Jiménez (born March 6, 1988) in a Bolivian footballer who plays as a defender for Oriente Petrolero, having previously played for Unión Tarija and Universitario.

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.

The prefects of Santa Cruz, Beni, and Tarija elected in the December 2005 elections all hailed from Bolivian opposition parties.

The Media Luna (half moon) or Media Luna Ampliada (extended half-moon) refers to a group of four departments – Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, and Tarija – in Bolivia which became the geographic area of opposition to the national government led by Evo Morales and the Movement for Socialism (MAS).

Nuevo Sur

Nuevo Sur is a newspaper published in Tarija, 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.

Óscar Gonzáles Alfaro, known as Óscar Alfaro, (San Lorenzo, September 5, 1921 - December 25, 1963) was a Bolivian writer.

Puna de Atacama

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

Republic of Tucumán

On 8 October 1814 the Supreme Director Gervasio Antonio de Posadas issued a decree saying the jurisdictions of Salta, Jujuy, Oran, Tarija and Santa Maria should be combined into the Salta Province with capital in the town of Salta.

Return to Bolivia

Related as a road-movie, the camera follows a pair of Bolivians with their three children, traveling to the edge of the boundary between Jujuy Province and Tarija, and then go to a village in the highlands between Oruro and La Paz.

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.

Salta Province

In 1774, San Ramón de La Nueva Orán was founded between Salta and Tarija (Tarija was added to the intendency later, in 1807).

Torneo Nacional Interprovincial

In Torneo Nacional Interprovincial 2012 will comprise the champions of the nine provincial championship and the host team from Tarija.

Valentín Ferraz y Barrau

He mounted campaigns in Tarija, Jujuy Province and Salta Province, recovering for the Spanish Crown those territories that had been occupied by the Argentine independence movement.

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.


Burdett O'Connor Province

The province is also known as Burdett O'Connor and is named after Francisco Burdett O'Connor, a chronicler of the South American War of Independence and the making of Tarija.

Norberto Quirno Costa

The election of that party's nominee, Miguel Juárez Celman, to the presidency in 1886 resulted in his appointment as Foreign Minister, during which he pursued regional international law agreements and negotiated a treaty with Chile to help settle the Puna de Atacama dispute, in which Argentine claims over Tarija, Bolivia were dropped for a greater share of the Puna de Atacama region (prized for its copper deposits).

Padcaya

Padcaya is the administrative center of Aniceto Arce Province and situated at 1,997 m above sea leavel on the banks of Río Orosas, 50 km south of Tarija, the department capital.

Politics of Bolivia

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

Puka Pampa River

About 17 km south east of the village Pilaya the Puka Pampa River empties into Pilaya River which is a natural border between the departments Chuquisaca and Tarija.

Uriondo

Uriondo is the administrative center of José María Avilés Province and is located at an elevation of 1,709 m on the confluence of Río Rochero and Río Camacho, 25 km south of Tarija, the department capital.