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Sep 20, 1548
La Plaz
highest administrative capital in the world.
stretches to El Alto city.
3,500m above sea level. -
Independence
spanned more than 15 years
numerous battles and countless deaths.
Result of a rebel victory. -
Simon Bolivar
Where the name Bolivia came from.
led Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia to independence from Spain in 1825.
First president of Bolivia -
Fational Flag
The ten stars in the border of the cartouche symbolize the nine departments of Bolivia, as well as the former province Litoral.
Alpaca and wheat are symbolic of the natural resources of Bolivia.
crossed rifles represent the struggle for independence. -
War of the Pacific
dispute between Chile and Bolivia over control of a part of the Atacama Desert
territory contained valuable mineral resources, particularly sodium nitrate.
National borders never definitively established. -
The Chaco War
fought between Bolivia and Paraguay.
prize was the control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region of South America.
thought to be rich in oil. -
Simon Patino
ownership of a majority of the tin industry in Bolivia.
one of the wealthiest man at the time of death.
nicknamed "The Andean Rockefeller´9 -
Bolivian National Revolution
known as the Bolivian National Revolution.
party lost power to a military coup
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR), which had attempted coups throughout Bolivia's history, again tried to gain power. -
Jaime Saenz
Poet
novelist
.short story writer
wrote about non-fiction -
Bolivian gas conflict
social confrontation in Bolivia reaching its peak
Things reached boiling point in late 2003 when large scale protests left over a hundred dead, mostly civilians
Two presidents were forced to resign over the fiasco which saw La Paz become completely blocked off from food and supplies for several days.
