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These 53 cities have a population of 6,162,346, accounting for 61.4% of the country's population. The largest city is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, with a population of 1,441,406, a 29.4% increase from the last census date of 5 September 2001. [5] La Guardia had the highest percentage increase, 801.5%, from 2001 to 2012.
Sucre (Spanish: [ˈsukɾe]) is the de jure capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of 2,790 m (9,150 ft). This relatively high altitude gives the city a subtropical highland climate with cool ...
Historic City of Sucre: Chuquisaca: 1991 566; v (cultural) Sucre was founded by the Spanish in 1538 and declared the first capital of Bolivia in 1839. The buildings constructed between the 16th and 19th centuries demonstrate the mixture of European styles, brought from Spain, and local traditions.
On December 27, 1879, a coup led by Colonel Eliodoro Camacho overthrew Daza, who fled to Europe with a sizable portion of Bolivia's treasury. The attempt of General Narciso Campero (1880–84) to come to the aid of Peru, Bolivia's war ally, was unsuccessful, and Chile defeated the combined armies in May 1880.
The Mercado Campesino is the largest marketplace in Sucre, Bolivia. [1] It has been operating for 26 years, and continues to expand with the popularity of market culture in Bolivia. The name of the market, in Spanish, literally means "market of the people from the countryside". This is because many of the products are grown or manufactured ...
Chuquisaca. Chuquisaca (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃukiˈsaka]); Guarani: Chuquisaca; Quechua: Chuqichaka; Aymara: Chuqisaka) is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.
Politics of Bolivia. A province is the second largest administrative division in Bolivia, after a department. Each department is divided into provinces. There are 112 provinces. The country's provinces are further divided into 337 municipalities which are administered by an alcalde and municipal council.
319,006. • Density. 230/sq mi (87/km 2) • Ethnicities. Quechuas. Time zone. UTC-4 (BOT) Oropeza is a province in the Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Sucre which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the Chuquisaca Department.