The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . f unascertained proportion of Catholics to non-Catholics isapproximately as seventy-two to one. All thesefigures are to be taken with reserve, since the effortsat serious statistics are but very recent. Since the close of the war with Chile in 1881,Bohvia has had no sea-coast. It is bounded on thewest, north-west, and north by Peru; on the north-eastand east by Brazil; on the south-east by Paraguay;on the south by the Argentine Repub
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . f unascertained proportion of Catholics to non-Catholics isapproximately as seventy-two to one. All thesefigures are to be taken with reserve, since the effortsat serious statistics are but very recent. Since the close of the war with Chile in 1881,Bohvia has had no sea-coast. It is bounded on thewest, north-west, and north by Peru; on the north-eastand east by Brazil; on the south-east by Paraguay;on the south by the Argentine Republic, and on thesouth-west by Chile. Its communications withthe outer world were still defective in 1905. Aline of steamers on Lake Titicaca then plied betweenthe Peruvian port of Puno and the Bolivian ofHuaqui, and stage hues, between La Paz and theChilian frontier. On the east side of the Andes,in the Basin of the Amazon, rivers, which are ofteninterrupted in their upper course by rapids (cachue-las), afford the only means of transit. Bolivia hadtwo short railroad lines of its own, besides theChilian line to Oruro, of which the terminus is upon. A Street in La Paz Bolivian soil. The two Bolivian railroads weretrunk-hnes, with an aggregate length of sixty-fivemiles. Work was, however, progressing on severalother newly begun lines. Bolivia is divided into nine departments anda National Territory of Colonies, the area ofwhich covers somewhat less than one-third of thewhole surface of the republic, while its populationis only one-sixtieth of the whole. Of the nine de-partments. La Paz is the most populous. Since1899 the national capital has been La Paz de Aya-cucho, with a population of 59,014 souls, situatedin this department. Next to La Paz in importanceis Cochabamba with 21,886 inhabitants. Sucreand Potosi are reported with 20,900 each, andSanta Cruz de la Sierra with 18,000, while the im- BOLIVIA 628 BOLIVIA portant mining centre of Oruro has a little over15,000 inhabitants. N
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