Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA:

Oficial name: Republic of Bolivia

Surface: Area: 1.098.581 km2s (2 France times approximately)

Capital: The Constitutional Capital is Sucre and the Administrative Capital is La Paz.

Currency: Bolivian Versus.

Standard time: GMT -4 hours

Population: 8 million inhabitants of which 70% are indigenous (essentially quechuas and aymaras), 25% mestizos and 5% targets of European origin.
Densidad of population: 6,7 inhabitants by km2

Official languages: Spanish, quechua, will aymará and tupiguaraní

Official religion: Catholicism

Entrance to the country: Valid passport. An authorization of 30 days of visit is decided to its arrival. No other previous proceeding is necessary.
Recommended season of visit: Of March to November.

Climate: The climate of the Plateau is fresh and hard all the year because of the height. The diurnal temperatures frequently reach between 15 ºC and 18 ºC, and in the nights they lower resoundingly, especially during the winter (June - August).

The precipitation varies between 700 annual mm on the coasts of the Titicaca Lake, that is so great and deep that it exerts a moderating marine effect on the climate of the northern Plateau, until less than 125 mm in the most barren parts of the plateau.

The Yungas is appreciably warmer because of their height inferior, and owns subtropical humid climate, characterized by an annual precipitation of about 1,250 mm, a high humidity throughout the year, and an annual temperature of 23ºC. In the level ones, the climate is hot and subtropical, with heavy summer precipitation in the north and a drier climate and tempering towards the south.

Purchases: Country of gold and the silver. Very interesting prices. The crafts are magnificent and very cheap (fabrics, clothes, leather, wood, ceramics, instruments of music…)

Gastronomy: Salmonadas trouts of the Titicaca. Dish of marinaded raw fish (fished of sea cooked in green lemon). Traditional plates: pasties (of cheese and meat); chuño (dehydrated Pope); chicha (fermented maize liquor); chairo (soup of chuño); saice (worn out meat and rice with a sauce).

Government: Democratic. Bolivia got to be a republic in 1825, when it gained his independence of Spain. It must his name to Simon Bolivar, the liberator of America.
Although with a boisterous past marked by the dictatorships of Latin America, Bolivia lives, from 1981, a stable democratic regime.
Effective constitution of 1947 (reviewed in 1964).

Executive system: President and vice-president, chosen by means of direct suffrage for a term of 5 years, nonreeligible for the immediate period. Cabinet of ministers (named by the president).

Legislative system: Bicameral congress formed by the Senate (twenty-seven members, three by each department, chosen for a term of 5 years), House of Representatives (130 members, chosen by 5).

Judicial system: It Supreme Court (twelve magistrates appointed by the Congress for a term of ten years), you cut of District (in each department) and judged provincial and local.

Suffrage: All the citizens vote who have reached the age of veintiún years (eighteen years if they are married).

Departmental government: The departments (subdivided in provinces and corners) are governed, each of them, by a prefect appointed by the president of the Republic. The departmental capitals have independent municipal advice. The provinces are administered by subprefects.

Political division:

Department	Area km2	Capitals	Alt. m.
Beni	213,564	Trinidad	155
Cochabamba	55,631	Cochabamba	2,558
Chuquisaca	51,524	Sucre	2,790
La Paz	133,985	La Paz	3,627
Oruro	53,588	Oruro	3,709
Bulging	63,827	Blanket	202
Potosí	118,218	Potosí	3,977
Santa Cruz	370,621	Santa Cruz  of the Mountain range	416
Tarija	37,623	Tarija	1,866

Geography: It has border to the north and the east with Brazil; to the Southeast with Paraguay; to the south with Argentina, and the west with Chile and Peru.
The Southeast of Bolivia is dominated by the amplest mountainous system of The $andes (650 km). The $andes are divided in two great mountain ranges, separated by one widens well-known plateau like Plateau.

The Western Mountain range opposite form with Chile, reaching the 7,014 ms in the snow-covered Ancohuma, that is the highest point of Bolivia. The Eastern Mountain range is dominated by the snowed ones of the Illampu (6485 ms) and of the Illimani (6,882 ms).

The Eastern Mountain range runs in direction northwest-Southeast and it is abre towards low territories of the amazonian river basin. The valleys sink in these Eastern inclinations, arising the territories from Cochabamba, Sucre, and Tarija.

The Plateau has an elevation average of 3,600 ms and is one of the areas populated more discharges with the world. In him is the Titicaca Lake, located in the Peruvian border, that is the navigable lake more world stop.
The three quarters of Bolivia are occupied by level the Eastern ones. Level the northern ones of the Beni are bathed by the rivers Beni and Mamoré, important tributary of the great Amazonian fluvial river basin.

Resources: Bolivia has a great natural wealth that is, nevertheless, complicated to obtain. The mountains retain rich mineral deposits, but they are to heights of 4,000 to 4,550 meters, where the physical work is extremely difficult. The mahogany, rubber, chestnut, nut, soybean and wheat are abundant and they are in the tropical rain forests of the Amazonia.

Flora and Fauna:
Due to the ample variety of ecosystems of Bolivia, its flora and fauna are very rich and differ according to the region.