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Located
at 3700 meters of altitude, La Paz which was founded in 1548
by the Spaniards, is the highest capital of the world (siége
of the government since 1900).
During the colonial time, La Paz will remain a long time a peaceful
village, now it became a large city of more than one million
inhabitants who makes coexist the goldens delicious servant
boys of the downtown area and the Indians will aymaras hills.
The agglomeration of Paz includes/understands in fact two cities.
El Alto (approximately 500.000 inhabitants), where the airport
is, which became a gigantic dormitory town of peasants having
left their grounds.
500 meters lower, La Paz (700.000 inhabitants), with the centre
town and its districts of businesses and residential
400 meters low still, extends the southern zone with the beautiful
districts from Florida, Achumani, Rinconada or Aranjuez.
Visit city:
The markets form integral part of the everyday life of Paz.
The mercado Rodriguez, in the district of San Pedro, is very
animated during the weekends.
The calle Belisario Salinas of the district of Sopocachi counts
ten bars, which makes of this district the appointment of the
fêtards of Paz. Of a point of considering more cultural, various
museums are offered to the visitors, among whom
National museum of Art, installed in the palate Diez de Medina,
going back to 1775 and known under the name of Put los Condes
de Arana (house of the counts d' Arana).
The Museum of ethnography and Folklore is installed in the
palate of the marquis de Villaverde, a beautiful building
which goes back to 1776. This museum exposes the life and
the habits of two Bolivian ethnic groups, Chipayas and Ayoreos.
The national museum of Tiwanaku Archaeology has an extremely
complete collection of archaeological vestiges of the period
précolombienne: ceramics of the north of Paz, mummies
found in the department of Oruro, or of trépanés
craniums and craniums lengthened and deformed artificially.
The museoTambo Quirquincho is dedicated to the "chola"(the
woman of Paz) this museum exposes masks, costumes typical,
a great choice of photographs of the beginning of century,
old charts, silver objects and parts of contemporary art.
The street Jaen is the only place of Paz which
preserved its colonial aspect. Paved narrow lanes curve among
white colonial houses with the projecting balconies of which
some shelter museums among which:
The museo of Metales Preciosos which exposes rich person gold
coins and money of the period précolombienne.
The museo del Litiral is him, entirely devoted to the war
of 1879 against Chile.
The museo Casa of Murillo was the house which had been that
of Murillo (the most important character of the war of liberation).
The environment of origin is reconstituted in the least detail,
one also finds there objects of the folklore Bolivian.
In the surroundings of Paz:
The Valley of the Moon, this extraordinary geological formation
owes its lunar aspect at erosion, several times millenium,
by the wind and the rain.
Chacaltaya, to nearly 5300 meters of altitude, offers a sight
of a radius of 200 kilometers to the round. The Royal cordillera,
the beginning of Yungas, the lake Titikaka.
The lake Titikaka is at one hour of Paz
The city of Tiwanaku are the most famous ruins of Bolivia.
Coroico, the road is époustouflante and the resting
village. A small corner of paradise in Yungas.
Sorata is the most beautiful village of the Bolivian Andes,
with the foot of Illampu. From there one can carry out excursions
out of the commun run of which the "way of the gold"
which remains the most beautiful trekking of Bolivia, but
also most difficult.
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