Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest and Peru to the west. The seat of government and executive capital is La Paz, while the constitutional capital is Sucre.

Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately 3,709 meters (12,169 ft) above sea level.. It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by population, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Alto, La Paz, and Cochabamba. It is the capital of the Department of Oruro and …

The Bolivians' only game was an 8–0 defeat to Uruguay at the Estádio Independência in Belo Horizonte. The Bolivian squad that won its first and only Copa América title i 1963. Bolivia's greatest football achievement was the 1963 South American Championship title, which they hosted and won after placing first out of 7 countries, including ...

Antofagasta (Spanish pronunciation: [antofaˈɣasta] ()) is a port city in northern Chile, about 1,100 kilometres (700 mi) north of Santiago.It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region.According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669.. After the Spanish American wars of independence, Bolivia claimed Antofagasta as part of its territory.

Coroico is a town in Nor Yungas Province, in the La Paz Department of western Bolivia.. History. Coroico Viejo (Old Coroico) was founded above the river Quri Wayq'u (Quechua quri gold, wayq'u valley, hispanicized spellings Coriguayco, Kori Huayco).The town lived from mining gold, but the massive attacks by Native populations left the first Spanish colonial settlers in search of …

Chile's 2017 census reported a population of 17,574,003 people. Its rate of population growth has been decreasing since 1990, due to a declining birth rate. By 2050 the population is expected to reach approximately 20.2 million people. About 85% of the country's population lives in urban areas, with 40% living in Greater Santiago.The largest agglomerations according to the 2002 …

This is a list of currently reigning constituent monarchs, including traditional rulers and governing constitutional monarchs. Each monarch listed below reigns over a legally recognised dominion, but in most cases possess little or no sovereign governing power. Their titles, however, are recognised by the state.Entries are listed beside their respective dominions, and are grouped …

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill.There are no official definitions for the generic term river as ...

The Atacama border dispute is a dispute between Chile and Bolivia that stems from the transfer of the Bolivian Coast and the southern tip of Peru to Chile in the 19th century through the Treaty of Ancón with Peru and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia after the War of the Pacific (1879–1883). The dispute is considered to be ongoing because Bolivia …

The war on drugs is a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States. The initiative includes a set of drug policies that are intended to discourage the production, distribution, and consumption of psychoactive drugs that the participating ...