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Today converted into a metropolis that exceeds one million inhabitants, the citizen conscience as a whole accepts and defends the philosophy of democracy. View from the El Alto is beautiful by day but at night it enhances its capricious forms to be sublime and unreal. It seems that the Milky Way was at the bottom of the depression. A sea of ​​rubies and emerald sapphires extends in decline from El Alto to 4,070 meters. of height to Calacoto or La Florida at 3,300 mts.s.n.m. The show that La Paz offers nightly from the''mirador'' of El Alto is unique and incomparable.





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An essential museum is the National Archeology, popularly called Tiwanaku, and located in a modern building that pays homage to the famous ruins. It contains collections of the great Tiwanaku civilization, considered the oldest and most advanced in America, of tribes of the jungle and a special room dedicated to the gold deities found on Lake Titicaca.

The House of the Marquis of Villaverde, now the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore, dates from 1790. It exhibits samples of handicrafts, typical costumes and musical instruments. Another old house houses the Museum of Precious Pre-Columbian Metals: The construction was made in the 16th century.

At the Mercado de Los Brujos, in the old part of the city and around the church of San Francisco, you will find more select sales in the middle of the colonial streets Sagárnaga and Linares. The fair is named '' de los Brujos '' because it sells curative and traditional products of the Kallawaya culture.

In the Cordillera Real de los Andes it has an average altitude of 5,300 meters, located 30 km from the city of La Paz.

from where you can see a spectacular landscape of snow, lagoons and high plateau especially between the months of April to October acceding by vehicle in a time of about two hours.

Titicaca lake

65 kilometers from La Paz is Lake Titicaca, the highest in the world, with crystal clear waters and populated by small islands, among which the Isla del Sol, on which, according to legend, the Inca Empire was founded. It presents pre-Columbian architectural works such as the Palace of Pilkokaina and the Chincana, which means labyrinth or place where one gets lost. The stairs of Yumani, the three water sources the prehispanic terraces, some systems canalization of water wonder of engineering or surpassed. Madidi National Park

It is located between the provinces of Franz Tamayo and Iturralde, north of the Department of La Paz. Limited with others

National Parks such as the Manuripi Heat, the Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area and the Pilón Lajas Biosphere Reserve. Madidi is populated by about 1700 inhabitants of different communities. It was established by the government as a National Park through Supreme Decree 24123 of September 21, 1995. Madidi keeps unimaginable riches within itself. The quantification of species of flora and fauna of the park has not been completed.



Chacaltaya

In the Cordillera Real de los Andes it has an average altitude of 5,300 meters above sea level, located 30 km from the city of La Paz from where you can see a spectacular landscape of snow, lagoons and high plateau especially between the months of April to October, accessing by vehicle in a time of about two hours.

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