Bolivia
Capital:
Sucre
Continent:
South America
Maps:
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| South American continent. Bolivia outlined in dark ink and shaded. |
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| Close up of Bolivia and its neighbors. |
Neighbors:
Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile
Water Borders:
None
Total Area:
424,163 square miles
Five Largest Cities:
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, Sucre
Famous Geographical Point:
Salar de Uyuni (the world's largest salt flats; check out the pics online, they're beautiful)
Famous Person:
Simon Iturri Patino, industrialist (known as "The Andean Rockefeller")
Book Set In/About:
The Night by Jaime Saenz
A book of poetry by one of Bolivia's most acclaimed writers.
Movie Set In/About:
"The Cartagena Brothers (Los Hermanos Cartagena)" (1984), directed by Paolo Agazzi
20th century upheaval in Bolivia as seen through the eyes of two brothers, one legitimate and the other illegitimate.
Headline of the Day:
"Miners Escalate Protests in Bolivia" on Yahoo News.
2 comments:
I find it interesting that its capital is its fifth-largest city. Although I would bet Washington DC is pretty far down on our largest cities list. So perhaps I don't find that interesting after all.
Even more interesting is that a lot of people (including me until this project) think La Paz is the capital because for a long time they had a constitutional capital and an administrative capital (not all that uncommon). Sucre was only officially made the capital within the last 10 years.
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