BOLIVIA
(Republic Bolivia)

Capital: La Paz (administrative Capital:); Sucre (legal and judicial Capital:)

Flag: the flag represents horizontal three-colored red, yellow and green the strips representing animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms.

MOTTO: Himno Nacional, beginning "Bolivianos, el hado propicio corono nuestros volos anhelos" ("Bolivians, the pacified destiny topped our shouts of melancholy").

MONETARY BYULLET: The boliviano (b) was entered on January 1, 1987, having replaced peso with a speed of 1 000 000 = b1. There are coins from 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents and 1 boliviano and a note of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 boliviano. b1 = $0,12330 (or $1 = b8.11) as of 2005.

WEIGHT AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard, but some Spanish weight are still used in retail trade.

HOLIDAYS: New year, on January 1; Labor Day, on May 1; National festival, on August 5-7; Day of Columbus, on October 12; All Saints' Day, on November 1; Christmas, on December 25. Mobile vacation includes a carnival, ash wednesday, sacred Thursday, Good Friday, Sacred Saturday and Corpus Christi.

TIME: 8:00 - 12:00 across Greenwich.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Bolivia is located in South America in only 1 km from the Tropic of Capricorn, total area is 1 098 580 sq.km (424 164 quarter. Miles), about 1530 km long (950 miles) nanosecond and 1450 km (900 miles). Rather, the area occupied with Bolivia is a little less, than is three times more than the State of Montana. Completely closed, Bolivia is limited on n and ne to Brazil, on Paraguay, on Argentina, in the southwest of Chile and to Peru with a total length of border of 6 743 km (4 190 miles).

Capital: Bolivia, La Paz, it is located in the western part of the central part of the country.

TOPOGRAPHY

Bolivia has three geographical zones: The Andean uplands in the southwest which are going south from the North; the damp slopes and valleys on East side of the Andes called by Ship's boys and Vallee; and east tropical plains, or Oriyente. In Bolivia the Andes divided into two chains reach the greatest width, about 640 km (400 miles) and make about one third of the country. Between the lake Kordilyera forming border with Chile, and cutting Bolivia from the Pacific Ocean, and difficult knots of the Kordilyersky East is a wide sedimentary plateau about 4000 m above sea level who is called Altiplano which contains about 28% of the area of Bolivia and more than a half of its population. In the north of this plateau, on border with Peru, Lake Titicaca, the extent of 222 km (138 miles) and 113 km (70 miles) lies; with its surface at the height of 3,805 m (12,484 feet), this highest navigable lake in the world. The lake is merged to the South on the 322-kilometer (200-mile) Dezagadero River which flows into small salty Lake Poopo. Farther on the South - droughty saline soils.