Bolivia

Writers on South America generally dismiss Bolivia with a brief description which affords no adequate idea of its real place among the republics of the New World or of its uniqu...

Few countries offer a more interesting field of study than Bolivia, a land of varied attraction, with mystery and romance enveloping the story of its antiquity and lending a mag...

The great empire of the Incas fell to pieces like a house of cards. The splendor of their palaces, the riches of their sacred temples, the very pride of the people seemed to cru...

In Alto Peru alone, of all the South American colonies, the battle cry of freedom was, from first to last, an unequivocal and fearless declaration of independence. It is signifi...

Amid the joyous acclaims of a grateful people, who heralded him as the “Father of the Republic” and its “Protector,” Bolivar was inaugurated first President of Bolivia in the mo...

The Bolivian constitution is one of the most liberal in South America. Out of the _Constitución Boliviano_, given by the great liberator in the first days of the republic, has b...

With a liberal constitution and a president ambitious for his country’s progress and prosperity, Bolivia has the additional guarantee of good government assured in a judiciously...

Under the viceroyalty, when the Audiencia of Charcas represented the authority of Spain throughout the greater part of South America, and occupied a position hardly second in po...

The City of Peace, standing amid the highest summits of the Andes, under the white light reflected from the snows of Illimani and Sorata, and flashing back, like the flame of a...

Cradled in revolution and nurtured with difficulty under the most adverse conditions, the intellectual life of Bolivia has, in spite of all obstacles, developed in both strength...

To the traveller who views it for the first time from the distant heights of Huata, on the road leading to the capital from the north, the beautiful white city of Sucre looks li...

Long after the successful War of Independence had given political freedom to South America, and republican rule had been established in every Spanish-speaking country from the C...

Covering an area of about seven hundred thousand square miles, and presenting a variety of geographic and geologic conditions unsurpassed by any other country of the globe, the...

The itinerary for the journey was arranged in the conference _sala_ of the office of the director-general of telegraphs in La Paz. By the courtesy of Señor Torrico, and through...

Whatever may be the true origin of the Children of the Sun, the legends of their sacred lake are purely Oriental in character, and might have come direct from the sources of Hin...

The traveller’s famous soliloquy in the presence of the mummy of Thebes comes to mind as one contemplates the giant walls and huge monoliths of Tiahuanaco, which, so far as scie...

The famous Yungas of La Paz is the paradise of northern Bolivia. Nowhere does Nature smile with more bewitching candor than in these valleys of magnificent verdure, through whic...

In a beautiful valley of one of the eastern _serranias_ of the Royal Range, sheltered alike from the severe cold of the higher altitudes and the excessive heat of the lower plai...

With a larger territory than that covered by France, Germany, and Spain together, and a smaller population than the French capital claims, Bolivia certainly seems to offer plent...

Historic association and romantic interest combine to lend a peculiar charm to the old Spanish edifices of colonial times that are still to be seen in the various cities of Sout...

Few events in the history of modern times have been so universally recorded as the discovery of the mines of Potosí. In the middle of the sixteenth century, when the ships of Sp...

A brilliant past still casts its glamour over the historic city of Potosí. Romance lingers about its wonderful old palaces, fascinating in their antiquated style, with their exq...

Though the fame of Bolivia as a mining country has been gained chiefly by the enormous production of the Potosí and Huanchaca silver mines, these colossal treasures do not by an...

During the colonial period Oruro was the second great mining centre of Alto Peru, ranking next to Potosí in the wealth of its mines and the luxury and extravagance of its inhabi...

Gold mining in Bolivia has not attracted so much attention in recent years as its importance merits, though there was a time when the fame of this country as a gold producer nea...

Santa Cruz de la Sierra is the only Bolivian city of importance which is tropical in climate as well as locality. Although it is situated at about the same distance from the equ...

The city of San Bernardo de Tarija, founded in 1574 as a Spanish settlement for the headquarters of the missionaries who were working among the Indians of the Chaco, still prese...

Every year exploring expeditions go to the Beni, penetrate its forests, find new tributaries to its rivers, examine its _sierras_, and bring back wonderful stories of gold mines...

By Bolivia’s recent treaty with Brazil an exchange of territory was made between the two countries in accordance with which the Bolivian boundary was extended in one direction a...

The population of Bolivia is composed of three separate social classes, the Bolivians of European ancestry, the Indians, and the _mestizos_, or _cholos_, of mixed European and I...