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Nuestra Señora de La Paz
La Paz[1] (Spainyie)
Chuquiago Marka or Chuqiyapu (Template:ISO 639 name ay)
La Paz (Inglis)
View o La Paz frae Av. del Ejército in 2008. At the back, The Americas Brig.

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Motto: "Los discordes en concordia, en paz y amor se juntaron y pueblo de paz fundaron para perpetua memoria"
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is located in Bolivia
Nuestra Señora de La Paz
Location o La Paz athin La Paz Depairtment
Coordinates: 16°30′S 68°09′W / 16.5°S 68.15°W / -16.5; -68.15
Kintra Banner o Bolivie Bolivie
Depairtment La Paz
Province Pedro Domingo Murillo
Foondit 20 October 1548 bi Alonso de Mendoza
Unthirldom 16 Julie 1809
Govrenment
 - Mayor Luis Antonio Revilla Herrero [2]
Aurie
 - City 472 km2 (182.2 sq mi)
 - Urban 3,240 km2 (1,251 sq mi)
Hicht 3,640 m (11,942 ft)
Indwallers (2008[3])
 - City 877,363
 Densitie 6,275.16/km2 (Expression error: Unrecognised word "roond"./sq mi)
 Metro 2,364,235
Time zone BOT (UTC−4)
Aurie code(s) 2
HDI (2010) 0.672 – high[4]
Wabsteid www.lapaz.bo

Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spainyie: la ˈpas; Scots: Oor Lady o Peace; Template:Lang-ay), is the admeenistrative caipital o Bolivie, as well as the depairtmental caipital o La Paz Depairtment, an the seicont lairgest ceety (in population) anerlie efter Santa Cruz de la Sierra.[3] It is locatit in the wastren pairt o the kintra on the depairtment o the same name. It is locatit at an elevation o 3,660 meters abuin sea level, makin it the warld's heichest "de facto" caipital ceety, or administrative caipital. The offeecial caipital o Bolivie is Sucre an it is the seat o Juistice, La Paz haes mair govrenment depairtments, hence the "de facto" qualifier.[5] The ceety sits in a "bowl" surroondit bi the heich muntains o the altiplano. As it grows, La Paz climbs the hills, resultin in varyin elevations frae 3,000 meters tae 4,100 meters (9,840 ft to 13,450 ft). Owerleukin the ceety is touerin triple-peaked Illimani, which is aaways snaw-covered an can be seen frae several spots o the ceety, includin frae the neighbor ceety, El Alto. As o the 2001 census, the ceety haed a population o 877,363.[6] La Paz Metropolitan aurie, formed bi the ceeties o La Paz, El Alto an Viacha, make the maist populous urban aurie o Bolivie, wi a population o 2.3 million inhabitants an surpassin the metropolitan aurie o Santa Cruz de la Sierra.[7]

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