Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: LA PAZ

Surface: 133,985 km2s

Geographic location: 68°08' of west longitude is located between 16°30' of South latitude and

Population: 1.900.786 inhabitants approx (1992 census).

The department of La Paz is located to the northwest of Bolivia. The capital is the city of La Paz, soothes of the central Government, located to 3640 meters on the level of the sea. Their limits are: to the north with Bulging; to the south with Oruro; to the east with Beni and Cochabamba and to the west with the Republics of Peru and Chile. It is divided in 20 provinces and 272 corners.

The department of La Paz is divided in three geographic zones: The altiplánica zone formed by the region of the Titicaca Lake, Island of the Sun, Island of the Moon and the one of Suriki; it is the most humid region of the Andean plateau (650 mm of pluvial precipitation of annual average).

The subAndean zone, formed by the northeast flank of the Real or Eastern Mountain range that descends until level the tropical ones from the north. It has humid climate and it gives rise to an ebullient vegetation. This zone is commonly well-known like the Yungas.

Copretty the Amazonian zone with the departments of Beni and Pando, tropic of ebullient vegetation that makes of this zone an appropriate place for the ecological tourism of adventure and.

THAT TO VISIT IN THE CITY:

Temple and convent of San Francisco
Its construction dates from year 1549. The temple and the convent were constructed with wrought stone. At the beginning of century XVIII a weather destroyed the temple that was reconstructed years later. The facade of the Church is of baroque style. It was constructed towards 1790. The tower was constructed in 1885. The interior, also of baroque style, has a plant of three ships, separated with vault of tube and cupola of average orange, with four windows in the cruise. Its altarpiece is famous by the fine plot of its stature, treaty in gold bread. The church also counts on a pinacoteca that presents/displays a valuable artistic work collection: Renaissance, manieristas, barrocas, mestizas, neoclassic.
Location: Place of San Francisco.


Temple of San Pedro
It was constructed in 1790 after the wall from Tupac Katari to the city of La Paz. The cover is of aims of baroque and the principles of Neoclásico; it has from Leon and shells in the bases and the columns, and in the floor the names of the parish priests are recorded.
Location: Place San Pedro


Temple of the Favor
Of simple facade, the plant is of three separated ships by pilasters. On the cruise a cupola of drum rises constructed in 1832 by Manuel Sanahuja, with small windows that illuminate the altar. The pulpit, of 1690, is worked in detail having shown figures and filigrees.
Location: Ingavi street esq. street Columbus.

Temple of Santo Domingo
It was projected in 1609 by Francisco Jiménez de Singueza, but only the heavy work corresponds to century XVII. The facade is barroca, totally worked in stone, approximately of year 1760. Llama the attention the short decorated salomónicas columns with clusters of grapes. The plant of the church is of three ships. The interior was remodelado in century XIX to the neoclassic style. The deprived chapel is remarkable, that it owns a caissoned ceiling of Mudejar type.
Location: Ingavi street esq. Yanacocha street.

Church of the Carmen
The convent was founded on 1718. The facade of the temple dates from century XVIII, where they emphasize smooth columns, with worked capitals of two rows of acanto. The church has a single ship, cover with a gothic vault type tube that contrasts with the rest that is of baroque style. In the interior, it owns a magnificent sacred frontal of silver of aims of century XVII/principles of the XVIII.
Location: Av. Ballivián esq. street Columbus.

Cathedral of Our Mrs. of La Paz
It was constructed in 1831. It is of Neoclásico style; the facade is divided in two bodies; the interior has five covers of which the power station is flanked by three columns corintias.
The cathedral counts on a museum art sacrum that is located in the Socabaya street.
Location: Murillo place

Temple of the Calm one
It was constructed in 1894 as it is possible to be seen in his cover. Its style imitates then to gothic, the very fashionable one; the towers and needles are of classic proportions.
Location: America street

“Palace of the Counts of Spider” Museum of the Art
It was constructed in 1775. The building corresponds to baroque the delayed one. It consists of three plants with two entrances, one to the plant inferior and other than it leads to the central plant or of honor. The arches of the three plants surround a patio covered with white and black stones in whose center is a polygonal alabaster source. From the central patio they leave the perrons that lead to the honor plant, whose first steps are of alabaster. The exteriors are of great sobriety, standing out a cover of three bodies, that was the main entrance. The gallery of 10 arcs in wrought stone is remarkable. It presents/displays an important colonial painting collection: linen cloths of Gregorio Gamarra, Melchor Perez de Holguín, painters of century XIX and contemporaries.
Location: street Commerce esq. Socabaya street.

House of the Marquess of Green Villa “Museum of Ethnography and Folklore”
Constructed in 1776 and 1790. It has a great inner cover with means arc point, whose jambs are decorated with a braid, of which they hang flowers and grenades.
The outer balcony is of wood and dates from century XVII. It belonged to another house, today demolished. Finely it is also chartted and it owns carved doors of the same time. It exhibits typical samples of crafts, suits and musical instruments.
Location: Ingavi street esq. street Jenaro Sanjinéz.

Museum House of Murillo
Gift Pedro is the house of protomártir Domingo Murillo, manager of the revolution of the 16 of 1809 July. The house was constructed at the beginning of century XIX and has been declared National Monument.
Location: street Jaén Nº 79
Costumbrista museum “Juan de Vargas”
Thematic retrospective exhibition. It shows the foundation of La Paz, republican time, customs, traditions and sculptures paceñas of ceramics, and bottoms of scale model in miniature.
Location: Sucre street esq. Jaén street.

Coastal museum
Dedicated to the war of the Pacific. Trophies military, maps, rescued warlike implementos of the battlefield.
Location: street Sucre Nº 77889 esq. Jaén street.
Pre-Columbian Precious Metal museum
Beautiful house that dates from century XIV. It has two plants and three patios in unevenness with classified pavement. It owns a rich collection of pre-Columbian objects in different rooms.
Location: street Jaén Nº 79

Archaeological museum Tiwanaku
Founded on 1922 by the archeologist Arthur Posnansky, it counts on líticas pieces, ceramics, and other samples of the culture of Tiwanaku and old native cultures.
Location: street Tiwanaku Nº93 esq street Federico Suazo.

Museum of Musical Instruments of Bolivia
It presents/displays the most complete collection of percussion instruments, cord and wind of the different regions from Bolivia.
Location: Linares street esq. Sagárnaga street.

Market of Sorceresses
This singular market is in the old helmet of the city in the middle of the colonial streets Sagárnaga and Linares. It takes that name because in him curative and traditional elements of the Callawaya Culture are sold.
Location: streets Sagárnaga and Linares.

RECREATION AND RELAXATION PARKS AND VIEWPOINTS

Park or viewpoint: Park the Knoll
Place: District of Sopocachi.

Park or viewpoint: Park Viewpoint Layka Kota
Place: District of Miraflores Av. of the Ejeército.

Park or viewpoint: Park Viewpoint Quilli Quilli
Place: North district Villa Pabón.

Park or viewpoint: Viewpoint of the Stop
Place: City of the High district of the Light of Murillo (the eyebrow).



MAIN ATTRACTIVE TOURIST IN THE ENVIRONS

Archaeological sites

Tiwanaku: One is to 72 km of the city of La Paz and to 3843 M.s Near the Sacred Lake (Titicaca).


Natural sites

Valley of the Moon:
Located to 15 km of the city. The erosion has managed after the amazing years to form a set of formation stony, that give to the visitor the sensation of having shortage a unknown world. A true and almost real lunar landscape.

Palca:
To 68 km of the city of La Paz is this colorful town in which it emphasizes the huge view of the snow-covered Illimani.

Valley of Zongo:
It is located to 56 km of the city of La Paz in the direction of Chacaltaya, in the way that leads to the Milluni mine. In the neighborhoods of this mine there is a cemetery in which the tombs are guinea fowl of alive colors. The route continues by the different ecological floors in a temper-warm climate.

Beni stop - Linares Port - Santa Ana de Huachi - Coselvage:
Continuing the main highway La Paz - Beni, when arriving at borders of the Beni river, in Linares Port abre a different landscape and emerges the natural bullicio from the small fluvial ports. The region presents/displays exotic landscapes with abundant species of typical flora and fauna of the Bolivian Amazonia. Ideal for the practice of adventure tourism.

Track of Ski:
Located to 5,580 M.s in the snowed one of Chacaltaya, the Real Mountain range in Eastern the $andes. It is the higher track of ski of the world, to 36 km of La Paz. It offers a seen pride of the high snow-covered tips Illimani, Mururata, Huayna Potosí and others. Also in Chacaltaya the Laboratory of Cosmic Physics works.

Chulumani:
Population that is to 123 km of the city of La Paz in the region of the Yungas. It owns tropical landscape and warm climate. In the passage fruit trees are observed, plantations of coffee and cocaine (cocaine is not cocaine), to 4 hours of trip of the city of La Paz. Its height is of 1.740m and the landscape, huge.

Coroico:
It is located in the colorful zone of the Yungas, to 96 km of the city of La Paz (three hours of trip), 1,750 M.s Goza warm climate and counts on suitable hotel infrastructure for the rest and the relaxation. It is a beautiful place to realize strolls to horse and in bicycle.

Sorata:
Temperate climate valley and wonderful landscape. One is to 148 km of the city of La Paz (five hours of trip) and to an altitude of 3,900 M.s it is located on the foot of the Illampu (one of the highest mountains of America 6,380 m) and of the Ancohuma (6420 ms)

Urmiri:
Beautiful climate spa temperate, located to 118 km of La Paz. Account with thermal water sources, swimming pool and hotel infrastructure. Suitable place for the rest.

The City of Stone:
He is one of the attractive majors of the department of La Paz, where the wind and the erosion worked on the volcanic rock noses, small squares, streets, avenues, and where also it is possible to be enjoyed a good fishing and hunts.

Titicaca lake:
This navigable lake is highest of the world (3,810 ms) and the one of greater surface in South America (8,300 km 2). Wild habitat of totora, ducks, ispis, suches, fashions, and the salmonada trout of which they have been fished exemplary of until 1.25 mts. Also have been batrachians giant that they live in the slime.

Straits of Tiquina:
To 117 km of the city of La Paz; she is one of the most beautiful zones of the Titicaca lake. In their shores are the towns of San Pablo and San Pedro de Tiquina.

Other sites of tourist interest are: Sica Sica, Jesus de Machaca, Guaqui, Zongo, Caranavi, Teoponte-Guanay-River Tipuani and Alto Beni-Port Linares-Saint Ana de Huachi-Covendo, Huatajata, Lagoon Condoriri Bigeye tuna.


GASTRONOMY

• Chairo: Soup prepared with chuño, meat of lamb, chalona soaked, Pope, carrot, onion, beans, mote of maize, good grass, wuacataya, oregano and salt to the pleasure.

• Paceño plate: Prepared with choclo, Pope, beans and cheese, it is accompanied with sharp sauce (llajua).

• Humacha cheese: cheese, yellow red pepper, choclo and Pope pureja. Two use or three flat plate Popes and the plate served with abundant melted cheese is decorated.

• Jakhonta: Preparation with meat pieces, chuño, Pope, leaves of cabbage, onion; seasoned with oregano.

• Picana of Christmas: lamb meat, is vacant and hen, carrot, turnip, raisins, chuño, Pope, pureja, choclos; everything seasoned with leaves of laurel, pepper and red wine.

• Fricase: Traditional plate on the basis of meat of pig, white maize and chuño, seasoned with yellow red pepper, uses in deep plate, with a portion of broth.

• Thimpu: Preparation with meat of lamb, Pope, rice, sauce with colored red pepper, onion, peas and beans.