Bolivia

South America
Central South America, southwest of Brazil.

17 00 S, 65 00 W

"¡La unión es la fuerza!"        (Spanish) "Unity is (the) strength!"
President Evo Morales	Vice President Álvaro García

Capital
Sucre

Government
Unitary Presidential Republic

Religion
Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%.

Population
9,947,418

Ethnic group
55% Amerindian (Quechua and Aymara), 30% Mestizo, 15% White.

National Language                     
Spanish 60.7% , Quechua 21.2% , Aymara 14.6% , foreign languages 2.4%, other 1.2%.
         
National Day
6 August 1825 (from Spain)

Anthem
Bolivianos, el hado propicio (Spanish)

Currency
Boliviano (BOB)

Attractions

Lake Titicaca [with Peru], Salar de Uyuni, Tiwanaku

Website       

Art & Cultural

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Tiwanaku Tiwanaku (Spanish: Tiahuanaco and Tiahuanacu) is an important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia, South America. Tiwanaku is recognized by Andean scholars as one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire, flourishing as the ritual and administrative capital of a major state power for approximately five hundred years. The ruins of the ancient city state are near the south-eastern shore of Lake Titicaca in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, Tiwanaku Municipality, about 72 km (44 miles) west of La Paz. The site was first recorded in written history by Spanish conquistador and self-acclaimed “first chronicler of the Indies” Pedro Cieza de León. Leon stumbled upon the remains of Tiwanaku in 1549 while searching for the Inca capital Collasuyu. Some have hypothesized that Tiwanaku's modern name is related to the Aymara term taypiqala, meaning "stone in the center", alluding to the belief that it lay at the center of the world. However, the name by which Tiwanaku was known to its inhabitants may have been lost, as the people of Tiwanaku had no written langu

Tiwanaku