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Thujsa Jawira
Thujsa Jawira (Aymara ''thujsa'' smelling, ''jawira'' river, "smelling river", also spelled ''Tujsa Jahuira''), which upstream successively is named Ingenio and Río Grande and downstream is called Llink'i, is a river in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It flows to Awallamaya Lake south of Lake Titicaca. Thujsa Jawira originates from the confluence of various streams in the Santiago de Machaca Municipality of the José Manuel Pando Province. Known as Ingenio (Spanish for "mill, plant") and Río Grande (Spanish for "big river") it runs to the little town of Santiago de Machaca in the northeast. Behind the town it receives the name Thujsa Jawira. In the San Andrés de Machaca Municipality of the Ingavi Province Ingavi is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. This is where the Battle of Ingavi occurred on November 18, 1841, and where the World Heritage Site of Tiwanaku is situated. During the presidency of Eliodoro Villazón the province wa ... its direction is m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran languages, Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Indigenous languages of the Americas, Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guarani language, Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish language, Spanish and Quechua language, Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a Minority language, recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua languages, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal feature (linguistics), areal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, warm valleys, high-altitude Andean plateaus, and snow-capped peaks, encompassing a wide range of climates and biomes across its regions and cities. It includes part of the Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland in the world, along its eastern border. It is bordered by Brazil to the Bolivia-Brazil border, north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the Argentina-Bolivia border, south, Chile to the Bolivia–Chile border, southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government is La Paz, which contains the executive, legislative, and electoral branches of government, while the constitutional capital is Sucre, the seat of the judiciary. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Geog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Paz Department, Bolivia
The La Paz Department of Bolivia comprises with a 2024 census population of 3,022,566 inhabitants. It is situated at the western border of Bolivia, sharing Lake Titicaca with the neighboring Peru. It contains the Cordillera Real (Bolivia), Cordillera Real mountain range, which reaches altitudes of . Northeast of the Cordillera Real are the ''Yungas'', the steep eastern slopes of the Andes, Andes Mountains that make the transition to the Amazon River, Amazon River basin to the northeast. The capital of the department is the La Paz, city of La Paz and is the administrative city and seat of government/national Capital city, capital of Bolivia. Provinces The Department of La Paz is divided into 20 provinces (''provincias'') which are further subdivided into 85 Municipalities of Bolivia, municipalities (''municipios'') and - on the fourth level - into Cantons of Bolivia, cantons. The provinces with their capitals are: Government The chief executive office of Departments of Bol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingavi Province
Ingavi is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. This is where the Battle of Ingavi occurred on November 18, 1841, and where the World Heritage Site of Tiwanaku is situated. During the presidency of Eliodoro Villazón the province was founded on December 16, 1909, with Viacha as its capital. Geography Ingavi lies on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca. The Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below: Subdivision Ingavi Province is divided into seven municipalities which are partly further subdivided into cantons. Population The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Aymara descent. Tourist attractions Some of the tourist attractions of the municipalities are: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Pando
José Manuel Inocencio Pando Solares (27 December 1849 – 17 June 1917) was a Bolivian explorer, military officer, and politician who served as the 25th president of Bolivia from 1899 to 1904. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He fought the so-called Acre War with Brazil, which led to Bolivia's loss of the Acre territories. Early life Youth and studies Pando was born in the town of Luribay on 27 December 1848. His parents were Manuel Pando and Petrona Solares. He studied at the ''Colegio Seminario de La Paz'' and continued his studies at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) where he studied medicine, but only reached the sixth year before he abandoned it for a career in politics. At the age of twenty-three, Pando fought alongside the people of La Paz to overthrow the government of Mariano Melgarejo on 15 January 1871, after which he was incorporated into the Bolivian Army. Military career After overthrowing Melgarejo, Bolivian President Agustín Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago De Machaca Municipality
Santiago de Machaca is the first municipal section of the José Manuel Pando Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Santiago de Machaca. See also * Llallawa * Misa Willk'i * Tatitu Qullu Tatitu Qullu (Aymara ''tatitu'' God (term of endearment for 'father'), ''qullu'' mountain, also spelled ''Tatito Khollu, Tatitu Kkollu'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, José Manuel Pando Provinc ... * Thujsa Jawira * Wari Kunka References *Instituto Nacional de Estadistica de Bolivia (INE) Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia) {{JoséManuelPandoProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awallamaya Lake
__NOTOC__ Awallamaya (Aymara ''awalla'' the first one of two newborn girls, ''maya'' one, ''amaya'' merlon / dead boy / beloved or very dear son or daughter / lazy / dead / skinny or weak person,Ludovico Bertonio, Transcripción del vocabulario de la lengua aymara (Spanish-Aymara dictionary) Hispanicized spelling ''Aguallamaya'') is a lake in Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, Jesús de Machaca Municipality, near the village Awallamaya. Its surface area is 96 km2. See also * Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range * Jach'a Jawira * Thujsa Jawira * Qhunqhu Wankani Qhunqhu Wankani ( Aymara, Hispanicized spellings ''Khonkho Wankane, Khonkho Wankani, Khonko Huancane, Qhunqhu Wankane'') is an archaeological site in Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, Jesús de Machaca Municipality. ... References Lakes of La Paz Department (Bolivia) {{IngaviProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca (; ; ) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. Titicaca is the largest lake in South America, both in terms of the volume of water and surface area.Grove, M. J., P. A. Baker, S. L. Cross, C. A. Rigsby and G. O. Seltzer 2003 Application of Strontium Isotopes to Understanding the Hydrology and Paleohydrology of the Altiplano, Bolivia-Peru. ''Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology'' 194:281-297. It has a surface elevation of . Overview The lake is located at the northern end of the endorheic Altiplano basin high in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. The western part of the lake lies within the Puno Region of Peru, and the eastern side is located in the Bolivian La Paz Department (Bolivia), La Paz Department. The lake consists of two nearly separate subbasins connected by the Strait of Tiquina, which is across at the narrowest point. The lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Pando Province
José Manuel Pando is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It was founded on April 22, 1986, during the presidency of Víctor Paz Estenssoro. The province was named after José Manuel Pando (1848–1917) who was the president of Bolivia from 1899 till 1904. Its capital is Santiago de Machaca. The province is situated in the western part of the Bolivian Altiplano, south of Lake Titicaca. To the west it is bordered by Peru, to the southeast by the Pacajes Province and to the northeast by the Ingavi Province. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:IGM map 1:50,000 Sinejavi 5742-III Subdivision The province is divided into two municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ... which are further subdivided into canto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, global language with 483 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 558 million speakers total, including second-language speakers. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries, as well as one of the Official languages of the United Nations, six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
