Bus terminal station in central (terminal de buses) La Paz, Bolivia, Altiplano, Andes, South America
La Paz is situated at 3500 metres above sea level in a narrow canyon in the high Altiplano. The rich part of the city is in the bottom of the valley and the poorer inhabitants live in ramshackle houses crowded onto the steep valley slopes. . It is the political capital of Bolivia although technically Sucre is the capital. It was founded as a centre of Spanish colonialism in the Andes in the sixteenth century. In Bolivia major international and interdepartmental stations are called terminals (terminales). Each department's capital city has at least one "terminal de buses". The number of smaller provincial, regional and departmental stations varies greatly between cities. Read more about the major cities of Bolivia here. The bus terminals of the Andes were chaotic places with so many competing operators that the sales teams for individual companies went to extraordinarily lengths to attain your custom. The very least of this was the sing song chanting of destinations by the touts. The La Paz terminal was one of the largest (and most reverberant) that we experienced. At one time merely a suburb of adjacent La Paz, Bolivia, on the Altiplano highlands, the city of El Alto (Spanish for The Heights) is today one of Bolivia's largest and fastest-growing urban centers. As of the 2001 census, the population was 649,958. In 2010, the population may be nearly 900,000, or more. The city contains La Paz's El Alto International Airport. El Alto is one of the highest major cities in the world, up to 4150 meters (13,615 feet) above sea level. It has a cold climate, reaching the maximum temperature of 17 degrees Celsius (62 °F) in summer. It is the fastest-growing city in Bolivia, due to a trend of movement from Bolivia's rural areas to the La Paz region that started with the rural reform of 1952 and increased in the last 10 years. El Alto is the largest city in Latin America which has a mostly Amerindian population.
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Location: Bus terminal (terminal de buses), La Paz, Bolivia, Altiplano, Andes, South America
Photo credit: © Thibaut PETIT-BARA / Alamy / Afripics
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