La+Paz

 =City of La Paz =

La Paz is located on the western edge of Bolivia. La Paz is the departmental capitol and the administrative capitol of Bolivia. Its population is 789,585 people. La Paz is located in the Andes Mountains and is the highest capitol in the world at 12,008 feet above sea level. The economy is doing better then in the past few decades. This is due to better leaders recently. La Paz was built in a canyon crated by a river. Society reflects the geography of La Paz. The lower you go in the city the more affluent it gets. There are nice neighborhoods located down at the bottom and up all along the hills are makeshift brick houses(wikipedia.com). La Paz as unique markets and traditional culture. The cities temperature is consistently low because of the altitude. The city has hundreds of museums and cathedrals. The cathedral of San Francisco is where the saint is buried. The city of La Paz was founded in 1548 by the spanish conquistadors. Spain controlled la Paz for many years. Many groups of people tried to revolt against the Spanish. In !825 the republicans finally had a victory over the spanish. They changed the name of the city from Nuestra senora de La Paz to La Paz de Ayacucho.

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