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Bolivia: Santa Cruz
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[N]oteworthy is the Afro-Bolivian community that numbers more than 0.5% of the population, descended from African slaves that were transported to work in Brazil and then migrated westward into Bolivia. They are mostly concentrated in the Yungas region (Nor Yungas and Sud Yungas provinces) in the department of La Paz, some three hours from La Paz city. There are ... Japanese who are concentrated mostly in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and Middle Easterners who became prosperous in commerce.
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Bolivia airport row turns violent Bolivian security forces have taken control of the nation’s busiest airport as a dispute over landing fees takes on a wider political significance. The troops were sent in after staff at Santa Cruz airport detained a US plane to demand …
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Tourists come to Bolivia to enjoy the beautiful mountain scenery of the Andes and to visit Lake Titicaca. In addition, there are Incan and pre-Incan ruins in the mountains. Bolivia ... has a number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the silver-mining town of PotosÃ, which dates from the 1500s; the historic city of Sucre, the first capital of Bolivia; and Jesuit missions at Chiquitos, which were built between 1696 and 1760. In 2004, a Che Guevara Trail opened in eastern Bolivia. It leads from Santa Cruz via Inca sites to the village near Vallegrande, where revolutionary leader Che Guevara was captured and shot in 1967.
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Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as simply Santa Cruz, is, with a population of roughly 1.3 million residents, the capital city of the Department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia. Located in the eastern part of the country at 416 m above sea level, the city, though usually warm, experiences chill winds that blow from the Argentine pampas called surazos.
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