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La Paz

La Paz

La Paz is the administrative capital of , while is the constitutional capital and the seat of the Supreme Court.
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  • Type: City with 759,000 residents
  • Description: seat of government of Bolivia
  • Also known as: “Chuqi Yapu”, “Chuqiyapu”, and “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Hernando Siles and Casa Grande del Pueblo.

Stadium
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Hernando Siles Stadium, also known as Estadio Olímpico La Paz, is a multi-purpose stadium in La Paz, . It is the country's largest stadium, with a capacity of 41,143 seats.

Public building
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The is the Bolivian presidential residence that replaced the in 2018. It is a 30 story tower. Inaugurated on 9 August 2018 during the presidency of Evo Morales as the official residence of the President of Bolivia, the interim government of Jeanine Áñez reverted to occupying the Palacio Quemado from 2019 to 2020.

Square
Photo: Elemaki, CC BY 3.0.
The is the central plaza of the city of La Paz and the open space most connected to the political life of Bolivia. Prominent buildings on the plaza include the Presidential Palace, National Congress of Bolivia, and the Cathedral of La Paz.

La Paz

Latitude
-16.5° or 16° 30′ south
Longitude
-68.15° or 68° 9′ west
Population
759,000
Elevation
3,782 metres (12,408 feet)
Inception
October 20th, 1548
IATA airport code
LPB
United Nations Location Code
BO LPB
Open location code
57MHGR2X+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1975648720
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3911925
Wiki­data ID
Q1491
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“La Paz” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Achinese: “La Paz”
  • Adyghe: “Ла-Пас”
  • Afrikaans: “La Paz”
  • Albanian: “La Paz”
  • Amharic: “ላፓዝ”
  • Arabic: “لاباز”
  • Aragonese: “La Paz”
  • Armenian: “Լա Պաս”
  • Arpitan: “La Paz”
  • Asturian: “La Paz”
  • Aymara: “Chukiyawu”
  • Aymara: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Aymara: “Chuqiyapu”
  • Azerbaijani: “La Pas”
  • Azerbaijani: “La-Pas”
  • Balinese: “La Paz”
  • Basque: “La Paz”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Belarusian: “Ля Пас”
  • Belarusian: “Ля-Пас”
  • Bengali: “লা পাজ”
  • Bosnian: “La Paz”
  • Breton: “La Paz”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Пас”
  • Catalan: “La Paz”
  • Cebuano: “La Paz (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “La Paz”
  • Central Kurdish: “لاپاز”
  • Chinese: “La Paz”
  • Chinese: “拉巴斯”
  • Croatian: “La Paz”
  • Czech: “La Paz”
  • Danish: “La Paz”
  • Dimli (individual language): “La Paz”
  • Dutch: “La Paz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لا پاز”
  • Esperanto: “La-Pazo”
  • Estonian: “La Paz”
  • Finnish: “La Paz”
  • French: “La Paz”
  • Galician: “A Paz”
  • Galician: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Georgian: “ლა-პასი”
  • German: “La Paz”
  • Greek: “Λα Παζ”
  • Greek: “Λα Πας”
  • Greek: “Σούκρε/Λα Παζ”
  • Guarani: “La Pas”
  • Guarani: “La Paz”
  • Gujarati: “લા પાઝ”
  • Haitian: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Haitian: “La Paz”
  • Hebrew: “לה פאס”
  • Hindi: “ला पाज़”
  • Hindi: “ला पास”
  • Hungarian: “Chuquiyapu”
  • Hungarian: “La Paz”
  • Hungarian: “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Icelandic: “La Paz”
  • Ido: “La Paz”
  • Inari Sami: “Chupiyapu”
  • Indonesian: “La Paz, Bolivia”
  • Indonesian: “La Paz”
  • Interlingua: “La Paz”
  • Interlingue: “La Paz”
  • Irish: “La Paz”
  • Italian: “La Paz”
  • Italian: “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Japanese: “ラパス”
  • Kabyle: “La Paz”
  • Kalaallisut: “La Paz”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾ ಪಾಝ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “La Pas”
  • Kazakh: “Ла-Пас”
  • Kirghiz: “Ла-Пас шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Ла-Пас”
  • Kongo: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Kongo: “La Paz”
  • Korean: “라파스”
  • Kotava: “La Paz”
  • Kurdish: “La Paz”
  • Kurdish: “Lapaz”
  • Ladino: “La Paz”
  • Latin: “Civitas Pacensis”
  • Latin: “Pax”
  • Latvian: “Lapasa”
  • Ligurian: “La Paz”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “La Pas”
  • Lithuanian: “La Pasas”
  • Lombard: “La Paz”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Paz”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Паз”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Пас”
  • Malagasy: “La Paz”
  • Malay: “La Paz”
  • Malayalam: “ലാ പാസ്”
  • Maltese: “La Paz”
  • Maori: “La Paz, Poriwia”
  • Marathi: “ला पाझ”
  • Mazanderani: “لاپاز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Paz”
  • Mingrelian: “ლა-პასი”
  • Moksha: “Ла Пас”
  • Mongolian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لاپاز”
  • Nauru: “La Paz”
  • Northern Frisian: “La Paz”
  • Northern Luri: “لاپاز”
  • Northern Sami: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Paz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Paz”
  • Norwegian: “La Paz”
  • Novial: “La Paz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Patz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Paz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòstra Dama de la Patz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nuestra Señora de la Paz”
  • Oriya: “ଲାପାଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾ ਪਾਸ”
  • Papiamento: “La Paz”
  • Persian: “لاپاز”
  • Picard: “La Paz”
  • Piemontese: “La Paz”
  • Polish: “La Paz”
  • Portuguese: “La Paz, Bolívia”
  • Portuguese: “La Paz”
  • Portuguese: “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Quechua: “Chuqiyapu llaqta”
  • Quechua: “Chuqiyapu”
  • Romanian: “La Paz”
  • Romansh: “La Paz”
  • Russian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱟ ᱯᱟᱡᱽ”
  • Sardinian: “La Paz”
  • Scots: “La Paz”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “La Paz”
  • Serbian: “Ла Паз”
  • Serbian: “Ла Пас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Paz”
  • Shona: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Shona: “La Paz”
  • Sicilian: “La Paz”
  • Silesian: “La Paz”
  • Sindhi: “لا پاز”
  • Sinhala: “ලා පාස්, බොලිවියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ලා පාස්”
  • Slovak: “La Paz”
  • Slovenian: “La Paz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاپاز”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad La Paz”
  • Spanish: “La Paz”
  • Spanish: “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Swahili: “La Paz”
  • Swedish: “La Paz”
  • Tagalog: “La Paz”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng La Paz”
  • Tajik: “Ла Пас”
  • Tajik: “Ла-Пас (Боливия)”
  • Tajik: “Ла-Пас”
  • Tamil: “லா பாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “La-Pas”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Пас”
  • Telugu: “లా పాజ్”
  • Thai: “ลาปาซ”
  • Tibetan: “ལ་པ་ས་”
  • Turkish: “La Paz”
  • Turkmen: “La-pas”
  • Udmurt: “Ла-Пас”
  • Uighur: “لا پاز”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Upper Sorbian: “La Paz”
  • Urdu: “لا پاز”
  • Uzbek: “La Pas”
  • Uzbek: “La Paz”
  • Uzbek: “La-Pas”
  • Venetian: “La Paz”
  • Veps: “La Pas”
  • Vietnamese: “La Paz”
  • Volapük: “La Paz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Paz”
  • Welsh: “La Paz”
  • Western Frisian: “La Paz”
  • Wu Chinese: “和平城”
  • Yiddish: “לא פאז”
  • Yoruba: “La Paz”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉巴斯”
  • Zeeuws: “La Paz”
  • Zulu: “i-La Paz”
  • “La Paz”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “La Paz”. Photo: Renedenis, CC BY 3.0.