Travel to Bolivia

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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Bolivia

• Time Zone: GMT/UTC -4
• Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellular phone etc.)
• Currency: Boliviano (B$)
• Country Dialing Code: 591

Must See - Properties on UNESCO World Heritage List

• City of Potosí
• Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
• Historic City of Sucre
• Fuerte de Samaipata
• Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
• Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture

Bolivia

Location
Central South America, southwest of Brazil

Capital
La Paz (seat of government); Sucre (legal capital and seat of judiciary)

Population
8,857,870 (July 2005 est.)

Regions
9 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Tarija

Climate
varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid

Ethnic groups
Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15%

Religions
Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%

Languages
Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara (official)

Government type
republic

Background
Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty, social unrest, and illegal drug production. In December 2005, Bolivians elected Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo MORALES president - by the widest margin of any leader since the restoration of civilian rule in 1982 - after he ran on a promise to change the country's traditional political class and empower the nation's poor majority.

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