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Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 136 m (446 ft) 34 2021 6 Condominio La Casona Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 127 m (417 ft) 27 2009 [6] 7 Manzana 40, Torre 2 Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 125 m (410 ft) 31 2021 [7] 8 Torre Mercantil Santa Cruz Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 125 m (410 ft) 31 2019 [8] 9 Great House of the People: La Paz: 120 m (390 ft) 29 2018 [9] 10 ...
El Alto (Spanish for "The Heights" [1]) is the second-largest city in Bolivia, located adjacent to La Paz in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province on the Altiplano highlands. El Alto is today one of Bolivia's fastest-growing urban centers, with an estimated population of 943,558 in 2020. [2]
Illimani has become a symbol of La Paz, Bolivia's seat of government. Illimani was first attempted in 1877 by the French explorator Charles Wiener, J. de Grumkow, and J. C. Ocampo. They failed to reach the main summit, but did reach a southeastern subsummit, on 19 May 1877, Wiener named it the "Pic de Paris", and left a French flag on top of it ...
Elsa Paredes was born in La Paz on 20 December 1918. Her father was the writer Rigoberto Paredes Iturri and her mother was Haydée Candia Torrico. [1] Her siblings were Orestes, Mercedes, and the well-known Antonio Paredes Candia and Rigoberto Paredes Candia. [2]
Valle de la Luna, also called Killa Qhichwa (Moon Valley), is situated about 10 kilometers from downtown La Paz, in the Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It consists of an area where erosion has worn away the majority of a mountain, composed primarily of clay rather than rock, leaving tall spires .
1946 La Paz riots: 8–21 July 1946 La Paz 130 200+ Wounded Siglo XX mine massacre 28–30 May 1949 Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bustillos, Potosí Department 144 23 injurerd [1] Bolivian National Revolution: 9–11 April 1952 La Paz 490 1.000 Wounded [2] Terebinto Massacre 19 May 1958 Terebinto, Porongo, Santa Cruz Department: 4
Cecilia Isabel Requena Zárate (born 5 March 1967) is a Bolivian academic, environmentalist, and politician serving as senator for La Paz since 2020. Educated at the Bolivian Catholic University with postgraduate experience at institutes in Europe and the Americas, Requena got her career start as an environmental activist, holding leadership positions in prominent environmental rights agencies.
Agripina Montes del Valle (c. 1844–1912) also known as "Azucena del Valle", "Porcia" and "La Musa del Tequendama", was a Colombian poet, writer, and intellectual.. She was recognized for her works dedicated to the beauty of her country and region, and to the women of Colombia and Latin America at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.