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The governing body of football in Bolivia is the Federación Boliviana de Fútbol (FBF), which controls the national teams. The FBF organises the men's, women's, and futsal national teams. The Bolivia national football team is currently ranked 75th in the world, with their best FIFA ranking being 18th in the world.
The Museu Nacional do Traje e da Moda is located in Monteiro-Mor Palace, in Lisbon, Portugal. [2] It has a collection of more than 33,000 items, which includes mainly masculine and feminine costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Female body shape or female figure is the cumulative product of a woman's bone structure along with the distribution of muscle and fat on the body. Female figures are typically narrower at the waist than at the bust and hips .
Drawing of Templo del Sol (as seen in 1887) on the Isla del Sol, where the mummified body of Manco Cápac came to rest. The Aymara name for the island is Titi'kaka. The original meaning of this word is not known. Some linguists and archaeologists believe the name to be a corruption of titi (Andean mountain cat; lead, lead-colored) and qala (rock).
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 ...
It is located in the capital of La Paz, two blocks east of the Prado. [3] Operated by the National Institute of Archaeology, a specialized agency of the Deputy Minister of Culture, it is said to be the most prominent museum in Bolivia. [4] The museum represents the cultural antecedents of the Bolivian people from the pre-Columbian era.
A plaza in the Sopocachi neighborhood of La Paz was named for Adela Zamudio, and her granite bust by sculptor Vítor Zapana was placed in the center of Plaza Adela Zamudio in 1979. In 1980, Bolivia's first female president, Lidia Gueiler, declared Zamudio's birthday, October 11, a national holiday. It is celebrated in Bolivia as the "Day of ...
Other: There are small amounts of European citizens of Germany, France, Italy and Portugal, as well as coming from other countries of the Americas, as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, United States, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico and Venezuela, among others. There are important Peruvian colonies in La Paz, El Alto and Santa Cruz de la ...