22 résultats pour "bolivia"
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bolivia
La fiesta nacional es el 6 de agosto, porque es el aniversario de la independencia en 1825. Las principales religiones son el catolicismo, con 95% de la población, y el protestantismo En Bolivia se pueden encontrar alrededor de 35.000 sitios arqueológicos. Muchos de los más conservados, por razones climáticas (desiertos y áreas muy secas) o por el tipo de materiales usados (piedra), se encuentran en los Andes, pertenecientes a culturas preincaicas e Inca. Sin embargo, en el sector oriental...
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Bolivia - country.
E Plants and Animals Because of the wide variations in elevation, plant and animal species of nearly every climatic zone are found in Bolivia. A coarse grass, called ichu, grows on the largelybarren high plateau in the west. Para rubber trees, more than 2,000 species of hardwood trees, and vanilla, sarsaparilla, and saffron plants are common in the tropicalforests of the east. The llama, found chiefly on the Altiplano, is an efficient beast of burden. Alpacas and vicuñas also inhabit the platea...
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Bolivia - geografía.
está intentando desplazar a un importante volumen de la población a la zona, lo que aumenta la gravedad del problema medioambiental. Bolivia fue el primer país que ingresó en la modalidad intercambio “deuda por naturaleza”, un tipo de acuerdo que permite a los países en vías de desarrollo pagar deudapública mediante la conservación de la naturaleza. El intercambio afectó a unas 800.000 hectáreas, la mayor parte de selva lluviosa. Bolivia es miembro de tratadosrelativos a biodiversidad, cambio cl...
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Bolivia - ficha de geographia.
Agricultura y ganaderíaPrincipales productos: café, coca, algodón, maíz, caña de azúcar, arroz, patatas (papas), madera para la construcción; se autoabastece de alimentosRecursos naturalesEstaño, gas natural, petróleo, cinc, tungsteno, antimonio, plata, hierro, plomo, oro, maderaFuentes de información:Datos básicos y Población Los datos de superficie proceden de centros estadísticos de cada país. Los datos de población, tasa de crecimiento de la población, mortalidad infantil y esperanza de vida...
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Bolivia Facts and Figures.
Other 2 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancyTotal 66.5 years (2008 estimate) Female 69.3 years (2008 estimate) Male 63.9 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 49 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 1,364 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,000 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 88.4 percent (2005 estimate) Female 83.1 percent (2005 estimate) Male 93.8 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross nationa...
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Simón Bolívar.
Again, he expressed his dislike of federalism and his preference for strong centralized republics. He felt that Venezuela and New Granada should unite into a centralizedrepublic, which would be called Colombia. This new republic would have an elected executive and a legislature consisting of an elected lower house and a hereditaryupper house. Lastly, he spoke about the need for a union of all the countries in Spanish America to ensure prosperity and security after independence. IV BOLÍVAR AS MI...
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Andes - geography.
smaller trees lies above the zone of rain forest. Among the smaller trees is found the wild cinchona, a source of quinine, a drug used to treat malaria. In the southernAndes, broadleaf and coniferous trees cover the lower slopes. Coniferous forests are found above 2,000 m (6,500 ft), and the timberline is generally about 3,000 m(about 10,000 ft) above sea level. Above the timberline are treeless highland meadows, but the high plateaus of the central Andes support only a sparse covering ofgrasses...
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South America - geography.
B Natural Regions Tierra del Fuego, ArgentinaUshuaia, on Argentina’s island of Tierra del Fuego, is the world’s southernmost city. Argentina claims part of the Tierra del Fuegoarchipelago, including the largest island, known as Tierra del Fuego or Great Island, and Staten Island. Chile claims the remainder ofthe islands in the territory.R. Van Nostrand/Photo Researchers, Inc. Rising abruptly from the northwestern and western coasts of the continent are the Andes. They consist of a single chain...
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Andes - geography.
The most important native domestic animal of the Andes is the llama, a member of the same family as the camel. The llama, found predominantly in Peru and Bolivia, canlive at high altitudes. It is used as a beast of burden and yields wool, milk, and meat. The alpaca, an animal related to the llama, is raised for its wool. Wild animals includethe vicuña, which is another member of the camel family, and the chinchilla, which is a member of the rodent family. Both the vicuna and the chinchilla are p...
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South America - Geography.
South America is dominated by relatively warm climatic regimes. Spanning nearly the entire continent along the equator is a belt of humid tropical climate that grades tothe north and south into broad zones where the length of the rainy season and the amount of rainfall diminish. These zones have wet summers and dry winters and aresubject to prolonged droughts. Droughts are a particularly serious problem in northeastern Brazil and along the northern coast of Venezuela and Colombia. The areas ofra...
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Latin American Independence.
be inferior and were not permitted a university education. In the lowest caste were the African slaves. As the Spanish monarchy tried to increase its authority, it was hampered by the power of the Catholic Church. The church, including various religious orders, hadacquired great wealth, including large holdings of land, in the colonies. The Jesuit order especially had gained extraordinary wealth and political influence, and it alsocontrolled much of the university and high school education in th...
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Latin America.
adequate housing and services, most were forced to live in shantytowns that came to encircle all large Latin American cities. One of the key problems facing Latin America in the late 20th century was the rapid rise of external debt during the 1980s. The borrowed money had been used bycorrupt, or at best inefficient, governments in non-productive projects. These large debts meant that many countries had to spend up to 30 percent of their net incometo pay interest on their loans. Some countries, s...
- République de Bolivie (fiche d'identité) República de Bolivia Code international: BOL Superficie: 1 098 581 km2 Population: 7 322 000 h.
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Argentina - country.
Patagonia lies in the rain shadow of the Andes and so receives little moisture. As a result it is used primarily for grazing sheep, although some crops are grown on smallfarms in irrigated valleys. Several major oil fields also are in Patagonia. At the southern tip of Patagonia is Tierra del Fuego, a large mountainous island shared byArgentina and Chile. B Rivers and Lakes Most of Argentina’s rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean. Three rivers—the Paraná, Paraguay, and Uruguay—flow generally sou...
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Antonio José de Sucre - historia.
órdenes del general Antonio José de Sucre, contra los 10.000 realistas bajo el mando del virrey José de la Serna, se saldó con ladefinitiva derrota española y la consolidación del proceso emancipador de América Latina.© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. Libertada Nueva Granada y creada la República de la Gran Colombia, Bolívar firmó con el general español Pablo Morillo un armisticio así como el Tratado de Regularizaciónde la Guerra (27 de noviembre de 1820), redactado por Suc...
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Latin American Music
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INTRODUCTION
Tito Puente Playing the Drums
Since the 1950s American drummer Tito Puente has popularized Latin American music, especially the mambo, in the
United States.
Panpipe Music of BoliviaWell before the Spanish conquest, native peoples such as the Quechua and Aymara living in the Andes Mountains inBolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, developed a rich musical tradition. Panpipes (set of tuned pipes), made of ceramic, sugarcane,or bone were paired with shell trumpets, cane flutes, and drums, which accompanied dancers during religious and secularceremonies. Large ensembles of 4 to 20 panpipe players are still the norm, and Spanish influences have since beenintegrated...
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Buenos Aires (city) - geography.
The city has produced or nurtured many of the most prominent Spanish-language writers of the 20th century, including Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and ManuelPuig. Buenos Aires has long been one of the primary centers of Spanish-language publishing and printing, and it is home to major publishing companies. It supports theoldest English-language daily newspaper in Latin America, the Buenos Aires Herald, published since 1876. The arts have a long, rich history in Buenos Aires. This is mani...
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Inca Empire - history.
rediscovered the site in 1911.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Inca society was strictly organized, from the emperor and royal family down to the peasants. The emperor was thought to be descended from the sun god, Inti, and hetherefore ruled with divine authority. All power rested in his hands. Only the influence of custom and the fear of revolt checked the emperor’s power. The emperor had oneofficial wife, but he had many royal concubines and his children by these wives often numbe...
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Perú - geografía.
hierbas y eucaliptos. En la altiplanicie y en la puna la vegetación se reduce a algunas especies, como el ichu, la puya Raimondi ( véase Bromeliáceas) y varias cactáceas. Otras plantas que crecen en territorio peruano son el condurango, el cenízaro, la capuchina, el cují, la quinua, el guácimo, el molle, la tagua y el quillay. La fauna del Perú es variada. En la región de La Costa y las islas habitan toda clase de aves guaneras ( véase Guano): cormoranes, alcatraces, pelícanos, gaviotas, golon...
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Native Americans of Middle and South America.
A line that snakes across central Mexico near the Tropic of Cancer forms the northern boundary of Mesoamerica; north of this line rainfall sharply declines and theclimate is much drier. The ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica all arose and developed in the area between this line and the Guatemalan highlands far to the south. Richvolcanic soils are found throughout much of the region. A2 People and Languages Mesoamerica was a great melting pot, home to many peoples and interrelated cultures. In...
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Brazil - country.
occasional droughts. Brazil contains a wealth of mineral and plant resources that have not yet been fully explored. It possesses some of the world’s largest deposits of iron ore and containsrich deposits of many other minerals, including gold and copper. Brazil’s fossil fuel resources are modest, but this limitation is offset by the considerable hydroelectricpotential of the nation’s many rivers. Although Brazil is an important producer of tropical crops, areas of highly fertile land are limited...