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Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 136 m (446 ft) 34 2021 6 Condominio La Casona Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 127 m (417 ft) 27 2009 [6] 7 Manzana 40, Torre 2 Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 125 m (410 ft) 31 2021 [7] 8 Torre Mercantil Santa Cruz Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 125 m (410 ft) 31 2019 [8] 9 Great House of the People: La Paz: 120 m (390 ft) 29 2018 [9] 10 ...
As a cultural centre, La Plata has many universities and royal colleges, such as the University of Saint-Francois-Xavier, the Royal Academia Carolina, and San Isabel de Hungria Seminario. These buildings are representative of the fusion of European architectural style and the style of local architecture in Latin America.
Cristo de la Concordia (Christ of Peace) is a statue of Jesus Christ located atop San Pedro Hill, to the east of Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is accessible by cable car, or by climbing 2,000 steps. The statue is 33.44 metres (109.7 ft) tall, on a pedestal of 6.24 metres (20.5 ft), for a total height of 39.68 metres (130.2 ft).
Siglo XX mine, early 1940s. Siglo XX (Spanish for "Twentieth Century") is a tin mine in Bolivia. It is located in the city of Llallagua in the province of Bustillos, Potosí Department. Along with the Catavi mine, it is part of a mining complex in the area. It was acquired in the 1910s by Simón Iturri Patiño, who was dubbed the "King of Tin."
First, it made the export and sale of all minerals a state monopoly to be administered by the state-owned Mining Bank of Bolivia (Banco Minero de Bolivia, Bamin). Then, it set up the Mining Corporation of Bolivia (Corporación Minera de Bolivia, Comibol) as a semi-autonomous enterprise to run state-owned mines. On October 31, 1952, the ...
Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana was Bolivia's first locally-born president. Despite the fall of his government, Sucre's policies formed the basis for the following ten-year rule of Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana (1829–39), the first native-born president, who was sworn into office in May 1829 after a series of short-term rulers.
The San Juan massacre is the name given to an attack by the Bolivian military on miners of the Siglo XX-Catavi tin mining complex in Bolivia.The attack occurred on 24 June 1967, in the early hours of the traditional festival of the Night of San Juan which is a winter solstice festival in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario listen ⓘ, MNR) is now a centre-right, conservative political party in Bolivia. [11] [4] It was the leading force behind the Bolivian National Revolution from 1952 to 1964. It influenced much of the country's history since 1941.