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Bolivia
Chuquisaca

Sucre

Sucre is a city in , . It is the official capital of the country, though most of the government is based in . Its center is a UNESCO world heritage site, and it is a pretty city with welcoming people and a peaceful atmosphere.
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  • Type: City with 239,000 residents
  • Description: constitutional capital of Bolivia
  • Also known as: “Charcas”, “Chuquisaca”, “Ciudad Sucre”, “La Plata”, and “The Illustrious and Heroic Sucre”
Photo: Diego Tirira, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Olímpico Patria and Metropolitan Cathedral of Sucre.

Stadium
Photo: Charly102689, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-purpose stadium in Sucre, capital of . It is currently used for football matches and is the home venue for Universitario de Sucre and Independiente Petrolero, and was used for the 1997 Copa América.

Church
Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D., CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , also called Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a cathedral of Sucre, formerly La Plata, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia. It was built between 1559 and 1712.

Museum
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is a museum.

Sucre

Latitude
-19.0477° or 19° 2′ 52″ south
Longitude
-65.2594° or 65° 15′ 34″ west
Population
239,000
Elevation
2,798 metres (9,180 feet)
Inception
September 29th, 1538
IATA airport code
SRE
United Nations Location Code
BO SRE
Open location code
57GPXP2R+W6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313764484
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3903987
Wiki­data ID
Q2907
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zulu—“Sucre” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Сукре”
  • Afrikaans: “Sucre”
  • Albanian: “Sucre”
  • Amharic: “ሱክሬ”
  • Arabic: “سوكري”
  • Aragonese: “Sucre”
  • Armenian: “Սուկրե”
  • Arpitan: “Sucre”
  • Asturian: “Sucre”
  • Aymara: “Sukri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sukre”
  • Balinese: “Sucré”
  • Basque: “Sucre”
  • Belarusian: “Сукрэ”
  • Bengali: “সুক্রে”
  • Bosnian: “Sucre”
  • Breton: “Sucre”
  • Bulgarian: “Сукре”
  • Catalan: “centre històric de Sucre”
  • Catalan: “Sucre”
  • Cebuano: “Sucre (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Sucre”
  • Central Kanuri: “Sucre”
  • Chechen: “Сукре (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Сукре”
  • Chinese: “Sucre”
  • Chinese: “苏克雷”
  • Chinese: “蘇克雷”
  • Croatian: “Sucre”
  • Czech: “Sucre”
  • Danish: “Sucre”
  • Dutch: “Historische stad Sucre”
  • Dutch: “Sucre (Bolivia)”
  • Dutch: “Sucre”
  • Esperanto: “Sukro”
  • Estonian: “Chuqichaka”
  • Estonian: “Sucre”
  • Extremaduran: “Sucre”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sucre”
  • Finnish: “Sucre”
  • French: “Sucre”
  • Galician: “La Plata”
  • Galician: “Sucre”
  • Georgian: “სუკრე”
  • German: “Sucre”
  • Greek: “Σούκρε”
  • Guarani: “Sucre”
  • Guarani: “Sukre”
  • Gujarati: “સૂક્રે”
  • Haitian: “Sik (kapital)”
  • Haitian: “Sik”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sucre”
  • Hebrew: “סוקרה”
  • Hindi: “सूक्रे”
  • Hungarian: “Sucre történelmi óvárosa”
  • Hungarian: “Sucre”
  • Icelandic: “Súkre”
  • Ido: “Sucre”
  • Iloko: “Sucre”
  • Indonesian: “Sucre, Bolivia”
  • Indonesian: “Sucre”
  • Interlingua: “Sucre”
  • Interlingue: “Sucre”
  • Irish: “Sucre”
  • Italian: “Città storica di Sucre”
  • Italian: “Sucre”
  • Japanese: “スクレ”
  • Kabyle: “Sucre”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sucre”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಕ್ರೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sukre”
  • Kazakh: “Сукре”
  • Korean: “수크레”
  • Kotava: “Sucre”
  • Latin: “Sucre”
  • Latvian: “Sukre”
  • Ligurian: “Sucre”
  • Lithuanian: “Sukrė”
  • Livvi: “Sukre”
  • Lombard: “Sucre”
  • Low German: “Sucre”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sucre”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sucre”
  • Macedonian: “Сукре”
  • Malagasy: “Sucre”
  • Malay: “Sucre”
  • Malayalam: “സൂക്രെ”
  • Maori: “Sucre”
  • Marathi: “सुक्रे”
  • Mazanderani: “سوکره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sucre”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sucre”
  • Minangkabau: “Sucre”
  • Mingrelian: “სუკრე”
  • Moksha: “Сукрэ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سوكري”
  • Nauru: “Sucre”
  • Nepali: “सुक्रे”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sucre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sucre (Bolivia)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sucre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sucre”
  • Norwegian: “Sucre”
  • Novial: “Sucre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sucre”
  • Ossetian: “Сукре”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੂਕਰੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Sucre”
  • Persian: “سوکره”
  • Picard: “Sucre (Bolivie)”
  • Picard: “Sucre”
  • Piemontese: “Sucre”
  • Polish: “Sucre”
  • Portuguese: “Sucre”
  • Pushto: “سوکره”
  • Quechua: “Chuqichaka”
  • Romanian: “Sucre”
  • Romansh: “Sucre”
  • Russian: “Сукре”
  • Sardinian: “Sucre”
  • Scots: “Sucre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sucre”
  • Serbian: “Сукре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sucre”
  • Silesian: “Sucre”
  • Sindhi: “سڪري”
  • Sinhala: “සක්‍රි”
  • Sinhala: “සුක්‍රේ, බොලිවියාව”
  • Slovak: “Sucre”
  • Slovenian: “Sucre”
  • Spanish: “Charcas”
  • Spanish: “Chuquisaca”
  • Spanish: “La Ilustre y Heroica Sucre”
  • Spanish: “La Plata”
  • Spanish: “Sucre”
  • Spanish: “Villa de La Plata”
  • Swahili: “Sucre”
  • Swedish: “Sucre”
  • Swiss German: “Sucre”
  • Tagalog: “Sucre”
  • Tajik: “Иёлоти Сукре”
  • Tajik: “Сукре”
  • Talysh: “Sukre”
  • Tamil: “சுக்ரே”
  • Tamil: “சூக்ரெ”
  • Tatar: “Sukre”
  • Tatar: “Сукре”
  • Telugu: “సుక్రె”
  • Thai: “ซูเกร”
  • Tibetan: “སུ་ཁུ་རེ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sucre”
  • Turkish: “Sucre”
  • Udmurt: “Сукре”
  • Uighur: “سۇكرې”
  • Ukrainian: “Сукре”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sucre”
  • Urdu: “سکرے”
  • Uzbek: “Sukre”
  • Venetian: “Sucre”
  • Veps: “Sukre”
  • Vietnamese: “Sucre”
  • Volapük: “Sucre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sucre”
  • Welsh: “Sucre”
  • Western Frisian: “Sucre”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏克雷”
  • Yoruba: “Sucre”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇克雷”
  • Zeeuws: “Sucre”
  • Zulu: “i-Sucre”
  • “Sucre”

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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 “Sucre”. Photo: +GujHIn+, CC BY-SA 3.0.