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Laram Quta (El Alto)
__NOTOC__ Laram Quta (Aymara ''larama'' blue, ''quta'' lake, "blue lake", Hispanicized spelling ''Laram Kkota'') is a lake in Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, El Alto Municipality. (unnamed) It lies south of the mountain Chacaltaya, south-east of Milluni Lake, south-west of the Qillwani Lakes and north-west of Qillwani ''(Khelluani)''. Laram Quta is situated at a height of about 4,556 metres (14,948 ft), about 0,5 km long and 0,17 km at its widest point. Gallery File:La Paz57.jpg, Laram Quta in the middle and Phaq'u Quta in the background as seen from the north File:Chacaltaya rifugio altipiano.jpg, Laram Quta (the largest lake in the middle) as seen from Chacaltaya refuge See also * Janq'u Quta (El Alto) __NOTOC__ Janq'u Quta (Aymara ''janq'u'' white, ''quta'' lake, "white lake", Hispanicized spelling ''Jankho Khota, Jankho Kkota, Janko Khota, Janko Kota'') is a lake in Bolivia located in the La Paz Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
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La Paz Department (Bolivia)
The La Paz Department of Bolivia comprises with a 2012 census population of 2,706,359 inhabitants. It is situated at the western border of Bolivia, sharing Lake Titicaca with adjacent Peru. It contains the '' Cordillera Real'', which reaches altitudes of . Northeast of the Cordillera Real are the ''Yungas'', the steep eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains that make the transition to the Amazon River basin to the northeast. The capital of the department is the city of La Paz and is the administrative city and seat of government/national capital of Bolivia. Provinces The Department of La Paz is divided into 20 provinces (''provincias'') which are further subdivided into 85 municipalities (''municipios'') and - on the fourth level - into cantons. The provinces with their capitals are: Government The chief executive office of Bolivia's departments (since May 2010) is the Governor; before then, the office was called the Prefect, and until 2006 the prefect was appointed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Domingo Murillo Province
Pedro Domingo Murillo is a province in the Bolivian La Paz Department. It was created on January 8, 1838, with the name Cercado and on October 17, 1912, during the presidency of Eliodoro Villazón, its name was changed in honor of Pedro Domingo Murillo, protagonist of the revolution of June 16, 1809. The province contains the Bolivian administrative capital, La Paz, as well as the major city of El Alto. Geography The Cordillera Real traverses the province. Illimani, the highest peak of the range, lies in the province. Other mountains are listed below: Subdivision Pedro Domingo Murillo Province is divided into five municipalities. Places of interest Some of the tourist attractions of the municipality are: Tourist guide by the government of the department [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal features rising from prolonged cohabitation, rather than natural genealogical changes that would stem from a common protolanguage. Aymara is an agglutinating and, to a cert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Alto Municipality, La Paz
El Alto Municipality or El Alto de La Paz Municipality is a municipal section of the Pedro Domingo Murillo Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is El Alto, the second-largest city in Bolivia. See also * Janq'u Quta * Laram Quta * Milluni Lake * Phaq'u Quta __NOTOC__ Phaq'u Quta (Aymara ''phaq'u, paqu, p'aqu'' light brown, reddish, blond, dark chestnut, ''quta'' lake, "chestnut coloured lake") is a lake in Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, El Alto Municipality ... References www.ine.gov.bo / census 2001: El Alto Municipality External links Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia) {{LaPazBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chacaltaya
Chacaltaya ( Mollo language for "''bridge of winds''" or "''winds meeting point''", Aymara for "cold road") is a mountain in the Cordillera Real, one of the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental, itself a range of the Bolivian Andes. Its elevation is . Chacaltaya's glacier — which was as old as 18,000 years — had an area of in 1940, which had been reduced to in 2007 and was completely gone by 2009. Half of the meltdown, as measured by volume, took place before 1980. The final meltdown after 1980, due to missing precipitation and the warm phase of El Niño, resulted in the glacier's disappearance in 2009. The glacier was located about from La Paz, near Huayna Potosí mountain. Ski area The glacier on Chacaltaya served as Bolivia's only ski resort. It was the world's highest lift-served ski area and the northernmost in South America. The rope tow, the very first in South America, was built in 1939 using an automobile engine; it was housed in the site's original clapb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milluni Lake
__NOTOC__ Milluni (Aymara ''millu'' light brown, reddish, fair-haired, dark chestnut, ''-ni'' suffix to indicate ownership, "the one that has got a brown colour") is a lake on the western side of the Cordillera Real of Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, El Alto Municipality, north of El Alto. The lake is situated at a height of 4,565 metres (14,977 ft) south of the mountain Wayna Potosí, at the foot of Chacaltaya. It is about 1.83 km long and 1 km at its widest point. The surface is 2.37 km2 (0.92 sq mi).Sonia Isela Sacaca Cuellar, "Distribución de bacterias sulfato reductoras en sedimentos de lagunas y turbera de la cuenca Milluni Cordellera Real, La Paz-Bolivia", Tesis para optar al grado de licenciatura en Bioquímica, La Paz, Bolivia, 2009, p. 35 At the south side there is a dam. Milluni Lake is also called Milluni ''Grande'' (Spanish for big) in order to distinguish it from a smaller, half moon sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janq'u Quta (El Alto)
__NOTOC__ Janq'u Quta (Aymara ''janq'u'' white, ''quta'' lake, "white lake", Hispanicized spelling ''Jankho Khota, Jankho Kkota, Janko Khota, Janko Kota'') is a lake in Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, El Alto Municipality. It is situated south of the mountain Wayna Potosí and north-east of Milluni LakeBolivian IGM map 1:50,000 La Paz (Norte) 5944-I at a height of about 4,664 metres (15,302 ft). The little lake north-east of Janq'u Quta is named Pata Quta ''(Pata Khota)''. There is a smaller lake of the same name east of Janq'u Quta in the La Paz Municipality. See also * Chacaltaya Chacaltaya ( Mollo language for "''bridge of winds''" or "''winds meeting point''", Aymara for "cold road") is a mountain in the Cordillera Real, one of the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental, itself a range of the Bolivian Andes. Its ... * Laram Quta * Milluni Peak * Phaq'u Quta References Lakes of La Paz Department ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phaq'u Quta
__NOTOC__ Phaq'u Quta (Aymara ''phaq'u, paqu, p'aqu'' light brown, reddish, blond, dark chestnut, ''quta'' lake, "chestnut coloured lake") is a lake in Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, El Alto Municipality. (unnamed) It is situated at a height of about 4,667 metres (15,312 ft) south of the mountain Chacaltaya, south-east of Milluni Lake and south-west of Qillwani ''(Khelluani)''. Gallery File:La Paz57.jpg, Phaq'u Quta (in the background on the right) as seen from the north File:Obsevatorio Astrofísico de Chacaltaya.JPG, Phaq'u Quta as seen from the Chacaltaya Astrophysical Observatory See also * Janq'u Quta (El Alto) __NOTOC__ Janq'u Quta (Aymara ''janq'u'' white, ''quta'' lake, "white lake", Hispanicized spelling ''Jankho Khota, Jankho Kkota, Janko Khota, Janko Kota'') is a lake in Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, El ... * Laram Quta References Lakes of La Paz Departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
