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La Paz was founded on 20 October 1548, by the Spanish conquistador Captain Alonso de Mendoza, at the site of the Inca settlement of Laja as a connecting point between the commercial routes that led from Potosí and Oruro to Lima; the full name of the city was originally Nuestra Señora de La Paz (meaning Our Lady of Peace) in commemoration of ...
The city of La Paz was founded by Spanish settlers on the pre- existing site of Choqueyapu, an ancient Aymara village. It was founded as Nuestra Senora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) by Alonso de Mendoza, commissioned by Pedro de la Gasca, to commemorate the "pacification" of Peru. It was started as a commercial city, lying on the main gold and ...
La Paz is located on the Baja California peninsula on the Bay of La Paz, 210 kilometres (130 mi) south of Ciudad Constitución, municipality of Comondú, and 202 kilometres (126 mi) north of Cabo San Lucas, municipality of Los Cabos. It is located 81 kilometres (50 mi) north of the town of Todos Santos. Its geographical coordinates are 24°08 ...
Officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz meaning "Our Lady of Peace." Sucre: Named in honor of the revolutionary leader Antonio José de Sucre in 1839. The former name "La Plata" means "The Silvery One." The official name Ciudad de la Plata de la Nueva Toledo literally means "City of the Silver of New Toledo."
Spanish map of La Paz in 1632 written by Spanish captain Nicolás de Cardona after his expedition of 1614 Former 18th century mission bell tower of Cathedral of La Paz, Baja California Sur Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó , is the first successful of Baja California missions
La Paz is a municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico, with its municipal seat in the town of Los Reyes Acaquilpan.It is located on the dividing line between Mexico State and the eastern edge of the Federal District and is part of the Greater Mexico City area.
La Paz is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of 20,275 km 2 (7,828 sq mi) makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area. [1] It had a population of 290,286 inhabitants in the 2015 census. [2] Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.
The Our Lady of Peace Cathedral [1] (Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Paz) [2] or La Paz Cathedral is a Catholic church in the center of the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, [3] western Mexico [4] that is the seat of the Diocese of La Paz. It is located where the mission was founded by the Jesuits in the eighteenth century.