La Paz
La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, while Sucre is the constitutional capital and the seat of the Supreme Court. La Paz has about 759,000 residents and an elevation of 3,782 metres. La Paz is situated nearby to Los Andes, and close to Challampaya.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Estadio Hernando Siles
Stadium
Estadio Hernando Siles is a multi-purpose stadium in La Paz, Bolivia.
Casa Grande del Pueblo
Public building
The Casa Grande del Pueblo, is the Bolivian presidential residence that replaced the Palacio Quemado in 2018. Photo: Caleidoscopic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palacio Quemado
Government office
The Bolivian Palace of Government, better known as Palacio Quemado, was the official residence of the President of Bolivia from 1853 to 2018 and again briefly from 2019 to 2020. Photo: Rodrigo Achá, CC BY 2.0.
Plaza Murillo
Square
The Plaza Murillo is the central plaza of the city of La Paz and the open space most connected to the political life of Bolivia. Photo: Elemaki, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: City
- Description: seat of government of Bolivia
- Categories: big city, municipality of Bolivia, seat of government, capital and locality
- Location: La Paz, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
La Paz
Latitude
-16.5° or 16° 30' southLongitude
-68.15° or 68° 9' westPopulation
759,000Elevation
3,782 metres (12,408 feet)Inception
October 20th, 1548IATA airport code
LPBUnited Nations Location Code
BO LPBOpen Location Code
57MHGR2X+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1975648720GeoNames ID
3911925Also Known As
- Abkhazian: La Paz
- Achinese: Chuqi Yapu
- Achinese: La Paz
- Adyghe; Adygei: Ла-Пас
- Afar: La Pas
- Afrikaans: La Paz
- Albanian: La Paz
- Amharic: ላፓዝ
- Arabic: La Paz
- Arabic: لاباز
- Armenian: Լա Պաս
- Asturian; Bable: 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: La Paz
- Dutch: La Paz
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: لا پاز
- English: La Paz, Bolivia
- English: Nuestra Señora de La Paz
- Esperanto: La-Pazo
- Estonian: La Paz
- Finnish: La Paz
- Franco-Provençal: La Paz
- French: La Paz
- Frisian: La Paz
- Gaelic (Scots): La Paz
- Gallegan: A Paz
- Georgian: ლა-პასი
- German: La Paz
- Greek: Λα Παζ
- Greek: Λα Πας
- Greek: Σούκρε/Λα Παζ
- Guarani: La Paz
- Gujarati: લા પાઝ
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Chuqi Yapu
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: 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 (International Auxiliary Language Association): 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
- Kongo: La Paz
- Korean: 라파스
- Kurdish: La Paz
- Ladino: La Paz
- Latin: Civitas Pacensis
- Latin: Pax
- Latvian: Lapasa
- Letzeburgesch: La Paz
- Ligurian: La Paz
- Lithuanian: La Pasas
- Lombard: La Paz
- Macedonian: Ла Паз
- Macedonian: Ла Пас
- Malay (generic): La Paz
- Malayalam: ലാ പാസ്
- Maori: La Paz, Poriwia
- Marathi: ला पाझ
- Min Nan Chinese: La Paz
- Mongolian: Ла-Пас
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: لاپاز
- Nauru: Chuqi Yapu
- Nauru: La Paz
- Northern Luri: لاپاز
- Northern Sami: Chuqi Yapu
- Norwegian: La Paz
- Norwegian Bokmål: La Paz
- Norwegian Nynorsk: La Paz
- Novial: La Paz
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: La Paz
- Oriya: ଲାପାଜ
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Ла-Пас
- Panjabi: ਲਾ ਪਾਸ
- Papiamento: La Paz
- Persian: لاپاز
- Picard: La Paz
- Piemontese: La Paz
- Polish: La Paz
- Portuguese: La Paz
- Quechua: Chuqiyapu
- Raeto-Romance: La Paz
- Romanian: La Paz
- Russian: Ла-Пас
- Santali: ᱞᱟ ᱯᱟᱡᱽ
- Sardinian: La Paz
- Scots: La Paz
- Serbian: Ла Паз
- Serbo-Croatian: La Paz
- Shona: Chuqi Yapu
- Shona: La Paz
- Sicilian: La Paz
- Sinhalese: ලා පාස්
- Slovak: La Paz
- Slovenian: La Paz
- Sorbian, Upper: La Paz
- South Azerbaijani: لاپاز
- Spanish: Ciudad La Paz
- Spanish: La Paz
- Spanish: Nuestra Señora de La Paz
- Swahili (generic): La Paz
- Swedish: La Paz
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng La Paz
- Tajik: Ла-Пас (Боливия)
- Tajik: Ла-Пас
- Tajik: Ла Пас
- Tamil: லா பாஸ்
- Tatar: La-Pas
- Tatar: Ла-Пас
- Telugu: లా పాజ్
- Thai: ลาปาซ
- Turkish: La Paz
- Turkmen: La-pas
- Udmurt: Ла-Пас
- Uighur: لا پاز
- Ukrainian: Ла-Пас
- Urdu: لا پاز
- Uzbek: La-Pas
- Uzbek: La Pas
- Uzbek: La Paz
- Venetian: La Paz
- Veps: La Pas
- Vietnamese: La Paz
- Volapük: La Paz
- Waray (Philippines): La Paz
- Welsh: La Paz
- Wu Chinese: 和平城
- Yiddish: לא פאז
- Yoruba: La Paz
- Yue Chinese: 拉巴斯
Other Places Named La Paz
- La PazBolivia
- La PazBaja California Sur, Mexico
- La PazCity in Honduras
- La PazCity in Uruguay
- La Paz DepartmentEl Salvador
- La PazBaja California Sur, Mexico
- Departamento de La PazHonduras
- La PazLocality in Mexico State, Mexico
In the Area
Localities
- Los AndesNeighborhood
- ChallampayaNeighborhood
- 14 de SeptiembreNeighborhood
- El TejarNeighborhood
Landmarks
- iglesiaLibrary
- Iglesia Santa RitaChurch
- Estacion policialPolice station
- Parque Niño JesusSquare
Popular Destinations in La Paz
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