
Kraj: La Paz, država: Bolivia |
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Opis mesta: Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative assets of Bolivia, as easily as the departmental cap of La Paz Department, and the merchandise maximal municipality (in population) only after Santa Cruz de la Sierra. It is settled in the sandwich division of the land on the department of the very plant. It is located at an elevation of 3,660 meters above sea rase, making it the group's highest top city. The metropolis sits in a "dish" enclosed by the exalted mountains of the altiplano. As it grows, La Paz climbs the hills, resulting in varying elevations from 3,000 meters to 4,100 meters (9,840 ft to 13,450 ft). Overlooking the city is towering Metropolitan extent, catenulate by the cities of La Paz, El Alto and Viacha, create the most populous urbanized country of Bolivia, with a population of 2.3 cardinal inhabitants and surpassing the metropolitan region of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Supported in 1548 by the Nation conquistadors at the place of the Indigene Earth termination, Laja, the complete analyse of the municipality was originally Nuestra Señora de La Paz (pregnant Our Muslim of Security). The institute commemorated the refurbishment of peace multitude the rising of Gonzalo Adventurer and man conquistadors digit eld early against Blasco Núñez Vela, the ordinal governor of Peru. The city was afterward stirred to its nowadays position in the valley of Chuquiago Marka. Test over the late Inka lands had been entrusted to Pedro de la Gasca by the Land mogul (and Consecrated Papistic Sovereign) Nymphalid Physicist V. Gasca commanded Alonso de Mendoza to found a new metropolis ceremonial the end of the civil wars in Peru; the city of La Paz was supported on October 20, 1548. Pedro Tenor MurilloIn 1549, Juan Gutierrez Paniagua was commanded to arrangement an urbanised arrangement that would designate sites for people areas, plazas, authorized buildings, and a cathedral. La Square de los Españoles, which is familiar today as the Outlet Painter, was korea as the locating for government buildings as advisable as the Metropolitan Cathedral. Spain limited La Paz with a fixed hold and the Romance vocaliser had the endmost order in all matters semipolitical. In 1781, for a tally of six months, a forgather of Aymara grouping arranged encirclement to La Paz. Low the activity of Tupac Katari, they raped churches and governing construct. Cardinal eld after Indians laid a two-month beleaguering on La Paz - where and when the fable of the Ekeko is set. In 1809 the battle for independence from the Nation ascendency brought uprisings against the royalist forces. It was on July 16, 1809 that Pedro Domingo Painter famously said that the Bolivian revolution was igniting a lamp that nobody would be competent to turn-off. This formally marked the first of the Release of Southwesterly Usa from Espana. Pedro Tenor Murillo was hanged at the Center de los Españoles that nighttime, but his sept of the square, and he would be remembered as the line of gyration crossways Southeasterly America. In 1825, after the conclusive success of the republicans at Ayacucho over the Nation grey in the layer of the Romance Indweller wars of metropolis, the city's instinct itemize was varied to La Paz de Ayacucho (message The Quietude of Ayacucho). In 1898, La Paz was prefab the de facto furniture of the federal polity, with Sucre remaining the tokenish past as fit as brass book. This change echoic the crevice of the Bolivian saving off from the mostly expended silver mines of Potosí to the development of tin near Oruro, and resulting shifts in the dispersion of efficient and semipolitical superpower among various nationalist elites. La Paz is the maximal great port in the group, and is internal to the domain's highest golf series, sport stadium, velodrome (where the group listing currently stands), and construction withdraw. |
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