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14 unusual facts about Bolivia


Chané people

They developed an agrarian culture, built densely populated villages, cultivated corn, peanuts, cotton and squash, and are famous for their ceramics and graphics which have been found mainly in the pampas surrounding the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Fuerte in Samaipata, and in Portachuelo, Valle Abajo, Okinawa, Cotoca, El Pari, Mataral and Warnes.

Corocoro United Copper Mines

The corporate office was at 151 Finsbury Pavement House, London, England, while the mine office was at Coro Coro, Bolivia.

Desaguadero

Desaguadero, Bolivia-Peru, a binational town on the border of Bolivia and Peru

Franklin Herrera

Franklin Juan Herrera Gómez(born April 14, 1988 in Oruro) is a Bolivian football (soccer) midfielder.

Huara

The village is crossed by the Pan-American Highway and is the crossing point for the road that goes to Oruro in Bolivia.

Jach'a Ch'ankha

It is situated in the Oruro Department, Cercado Province, Surakachi Municipality, 16 km east of the town Oruro.

Jach'a Uma

Jach'a Uma (Aymara jach'a big, great, uma water, "big water", hispanicized spelling Jacha Uma, Jachcha Uma) is a Bolivian river in the Oruro Department, Cercado Province, Surakachi Municipality, north east of Oruro.

José Antonio de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Villagarcía

Also during his tenure, an Indigenous peoples revolt for freedom occurred at Oruro (1739) and another led by Juan Santos Atahualpa broke out in 1742 in Oxabamba.

José Luis Contaja

José Luis Contaja Vicente (born 2 June 1987 in Oruro) is a Bolivian football defender.

José Manuel de Goyeneche, 1st Count of Guaqui

Goyeneche's armies were left unprotected in their southern flank, which forced him to retreat towards Oruro.

Mauro Blanco

A player from The Strongest he obtained a total number of nine caps for the Bolivia national football team in 1997, scoring two goals; both in a friendly match against Jamaica on 1997-03-23 at his debut in the Estadio Jesús Bermúdez in Oruro, Bolivia.

Pisagua, Chile

Pisagua was founded in 1611 after an edict by the Viceroy of Peru which established a base from which it could be possible to stem the illegal traffic of gold and silver flowing from the important mines of Potosí and Oruro, in the Highlands of the "Audiencia of Charcas", to the British and Dutch pirates operating in the Corregimiento de Arica.

Son de los Diablos

Nicomedes Santa Cruz explains that, despite popular opinion, the Son de los Diablos has no links with African rituals or with the Andean Morenada, but rather it has a very slight similarity with the Diabladas of Oruro (Bolivia).

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).


2012 Bolivian census

The Eleventh Census of Bolivia is the most recent national census of Bolivia.

Aeroméxico Flight 576

Federal Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna, speaking at a press conference shortly afterwards, identified the individual as José Marc Flores Pereira (aka "Jósmar"), a Bolivian citizen.

Ana María Romero de Campero

Father and daughter met in public service, where he gave an outstanding performance as mastermind and chief promoter of the OAS resolution in 1979 which urged Chile to give Bolivia a sovereign and useful outlet to the Pacific Ocean.

Andrónico Luksic

Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa (great-grandchild of Bolivian War of the Pacific hero Eduardo Abaroa), and a Croatian immigrant father, Policarpo, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.

Assembly of the Guarani People – North Charagua

Assembly of the Guarani People – North Charagua (in Spanish: Asamblea del Pueblo Guarani - Charagua Norte), a progressive political grouping based amongst the Guarani people that contested the December 2004 municipal elections in Charagua, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

Berthy Suárez

Juan Berthy ("Chicho") Suárez (born June 24, 1969 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a retired Bolivian football striker.

Beta Cephei

The star is nevertheless visible to most observers throughout the world reaching as far south as cities like Harare in Zimbabwe, Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia or other settlements north ± 19° South latitude.

Bolivia–Chile relations

Bolivia subsequently became dissatisfied at the arrangement due to the negative financial status of the national budget, especially after the earthquakes that struck Cobija in 1868 and 1877, the only small coastal town originally founded by Bolivians.

Bolivian and Chilean historians disagree on whether the territory of Charcas, originally part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, later of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and ultimately of Bolivia, included access to the sea.

Carlos Bueno

On the 15th he scored his first goal for the club, against Everton de Viña del Mar in a 5–1 success (also away), coming off the bench at Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso in Coquimbo; nine days later he also found the net against Oriente Petrolero of Bolivia, a in 2–2 home draw (2–3 aggregate loss).

Carlos Enrique

Enrique works as a football coach and has held assistant manager positions in teams such as Nueva Chicago, Almagro and Chacarita Juniors in Argentina and Aurora in Bolivia.

Carlos Lampe

Carlos Emilio Lampe Porras (born March 17, 1987 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football goalkeeper.

Cédric Anselin

He spent the majority of the 2001-02 season with the Scottish club Ross County before his career took him to the Bolivian team Oriente Petrolero.

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.

Conservation Strategy Fund

Some notable achievements include helping to establish 1.5 million acres of protected area in central Brazil, helping local people divert the construction of a road through Volcán Barú National Park in Panama, successfully preventing construction of a dam that would have flooded significant portions of Madidi National Park in Bolivia, and delaying the paving of highway BR-319 in the Brazilian Amazon which, without proper safeguards, could have inflicted harm on the world's largest rainforest.

Coro Coro, Bolivia

Coro Coro, also known as Corocoro, was one of the most important mining areas in Bolivia because of its copper deposits and was home to the Corocoro United Copper Mines.

Cotoca

Cotoca is a canton and Municipality of Andrés Ibáñez Province in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

El Chaqueño

El Chaqueño is a newspaper published in Tarija, Bolivia.

Francisco Azuela

He later served as Director of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of Guanajuato (1991–1997), and became the CEO and founder of the El Condor de los Andes-Aguila Azteca AC, an international cultural center currently based in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia (1999).

Franz Calustro

Álvaro Franz Calustro Cárdenas (born March 9, 1974 in Cochabamba) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder.

Gonzalo Galindo

Gonzalo Germán Galindo Sánchez (born October 20, 1974 in Cochabamba) was a Bolivian football midfielder.

Hertzog

Enrique Hertzog (1896–1981), was president of Bolivia, 1947–1949

Howard Air Force Base

In February 2008, the production for the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace used the base to double for an airport in Bolivia.

J. australis

Juglans australis, the Nogal Criollo, a plant species found in Argentina and Bolivia

Jaime Robles Céspedes

Jaime Robles Céspedes (born 2 February 1978 in Montero, Santa Cruz Department) is a Bolivian football midfielder who currently plays for Aurora in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.

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.

Kuntinaru

It is known from the holotype MNHN-SAL 1024, skull missing the apex of the rostrum and the paratype MNHN-SAL 3, second skull missing the apex of the rostrum, recovered from the Salla, Department of La Paz, Bolivia.

Llanos de Moxos

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

Marcelo Martins Moreno

Marcelo Martins Moreno (born 18 June 1987 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra), is a Bolivian footballer.

Miguel Mercado

Miguel Ángel Mercado Melgar (born August 30, 1975 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra), is a former Bolivian football striker who spent most of his career playing for Bolívar.

Modesto Soruco

Modesto Soruco Saucedo (born February 12, 1966 in San Ignacio de Velasco, Santa Cruz) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder who played for the Bolivian national team in Copa América 1991 and Copa América 1993.

Nelson David Cabrera

Nelson David Cabrera (born 22 April 1983 in Itauguá) is a Paraguayan football defender who last played for Club Bolivar in Bolivia.

Ñuflo de Chaves

Today the Province of Ñuflo de Chávez in the Bolivian Department of Santa Cruz is named in his honor.

Oscar Alfaro

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

Óscar Sánchez

Óscar Carmelo Sánchez (1971–2007), Bolivian footballer, member of the Bolivia national football team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup

Pavonine Quetzal

In the central Amazon Basin its southeastwards limit is the lower two thirds of the Tapajós River drainage; westwards the Quetzal ranges to the foothills of the Andes, from very northern Bolivia, eastern Peru and Ecuador, and southeastern Colombia.

Pereskia

Pereskia sacharosa The Gran Chaco including Mato Grosso region (Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay), and lowlands of the Andes in northwestern Argentina at elevations of 1000–2500 m.

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.

Richard Rojas

Richard José Rojas Guzmán (born February 27, 1975 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football midfielder.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bergamo

The diocese is headed by Bishop Francesco Beschi, and has a strong fraternal relationship with the city and the archdiocese of Cochabamba in Bolivia.

Ronald Arana

Ronald Arana Céspedes (born January 18, 1977 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football defender currently playing for La Paz F.C..

San Ramón, Beni

San Ramón is the seat of the San Ramón Municipality and is situated in the San Ramón Canton in Mamoré Province.

Santa Elena River

The Santa Elena River is a river of Bolivia in the Chuquisaca Department, Nor Cinti Province, partly on the border of Inka Wasi Municipality and San Lucas Municipality.

Schinopsis

The species within this genus inhabit different regions of the Gran Chaco ecoregion including parts of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

Toco Municipality

Toco Municipality (also Toko Municipality) is the second municipal section of the Germán Jordán Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia.

Turuncha River

Turuncha River is a Bolivian river in the Potosí Department, Agustín Municipality (which is identical to the Enrique Baldivieso Province), San Agustín Canton.

Unified Trade Union Sub Federation of Peasant Workers of Ancoraimes – Tupak Katari

Unified Trade Union Sub Federation of Peasant Workers of Ancoraimes - Túpak Katari (in Spanish: Sub Federación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Ancoraimes Túpak Katari) is a trade union in Ancoraimes, La Paz Department, Bolivia.

War of the Pacific

Chile acquired the Peruvian territory of Tarapacá, the disputed Bolivian department of Litoral (cutting Bolivia off from the sea), as well as temporary control over the Peruvian provinces of Tacna and Arica.

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.

White-bellied Parrot

It is generally fairly common throughout its range and is easily seen in a wide range of protected areas, such as the Manú National Park and Tambopata-Candamo in Peru, Cristalino State Park (near Alta Floresta), Xingu National Park and Amazônia National Park in Brazil, and Madidi National Park in Bolivia.