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Geography, demographics, economy, history, and government (see also Research)
- Capital City: La Paz
- Form of government: Elected executive President appoints cabinet, bicameral Congress (Senate & House of Representatives)
- Population: 8,586,443 (July 2003 est.)
- Total area: 1,098,580 sq. km
- Languages: Spanish, Quechua (34%), Aymara (25%)
- Religions: Roman Catholic (95%)
- Per capita GDP: $2,500 (2002 est.)
- Exports: $1.3bn; soybeans, natural gas, zinc, gold, wood
- Literacy: 87%
- Life expectancy: 64.8 years (67.5f, 62.2m)
Sources
- National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística)
- CIA World Factbook | country data - Bolivia
- U.S. Library of Congress | country study - Bolivia
- Nation by Nation | country data - Bolivia - facts, government, geography, history, human rights, people
- E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - Bolivia - national anthem, flag, map, people, economy, geography, government, defence,
news and weather
- World Skip | country data - Bolivia
- Ethnologue | Languages of Bolivia - national or official languages, number and diversity of languages, literacy rates, blind
population, etc
- U.S. State Department | Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs | background notes - Bolivia
- International Lesbian and Gay Association | Country Survey - Bolivia | - information for those working to promote lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) rights
- OneWorld.net | country database - Bolivia - news articles selected from around the world
- Governments on the WWW - Bolivia - comprehensive database of governmental institutions - parliaments, ministries, offices,
law courts, embassies, etc
- CIA Library | Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members | - Bolivia
- Political Resources | - Bolivia
- World Audit.org | national statistics and reports - Bolivia - national statistics and reports from Freedom House, Transparency
International, Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists and others
- ElectionWorld.org | election results in Bolivia
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Portals, indexes, guides, searchers, phone directories
- Bolivia.com
- Bolivia Internet
- Bolivia Web
- Bolivian
- BoliviaNet - information, tourism, and culture
- SoloBolivia.com - history, geography, politics, economy, folklore, culture, tourism and sports
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Executive, legislature, judiciary, ministries, departments, agencies, and commissions
- Directories
- Bolivia.gov.bo - portal of the Bolivian Government
- Governments on the WWW - Bolivia - comprehensive database of governmental institutions - parliaments, ministries, offices,
law courts, embassies, etc
- Executive
- Office of the President (Presidencia de la República)
- Office of the Vice-President (Vicepresidencia de la República)
- Legislature
- National Congress (Congreso Nacional)
- Ministries
- Attorney General (Fiscalía General de la República)
- Ministry of Defence (Ministerio de Defensa Nacional)
- Ministry of Economic Development (Ministerio de Desarrollo Económico)
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deportes)
- Ministry of External Relations and Religion (Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto)
- Ministry of Government Information (Ministerio de Información Gubernamental)
- Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Ministerio de Salud y Previsión Social)
- Ministry of Housing (Ministerio de Hacienda)
- Ministry of Housing and Essential Services (Ministerio de Vivienda y Servicios Básicos)
- Ministry of Farming and Indigenous Citizens (Ministerio de Asuntos Campesinos Indígenas y Agropecuarios)
- Ministry of Sustainable Development and Planning (Ministerio de Desarrollo Sostenible y Planificación)
- Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (Ministerio de Comercio Exterior e Inversión)
- Judiciary
- National Electoral Court (Corte Nacional Electoral)
- Defence
- Army (El Ejército)
- Navy (Fuerza Naval)
- Air Force (Fuerza Aerea)
- Agencies
- National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística)
- Public Information Gazette (Gaceta Oficial de Convocatorias) - provides access to state publications referring to the acquisition
of goods and services, the hiring of personnel, and warnings of closures
- Local Government
- Enlared Municipal - initiative of the Federation of Asociaciones Municipales (FAM) that lists all the municipal departments
across the country
- Inter-government
- Andean Parliament (El Parlamento Andino) - communitarian and representive device for deliberation and control of the Andean
Integration System (AIS) on behalf of the Andean Community
- Comunidad Andina (Andean Community) - subregional organization made up of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and
Venezuela and the bodies and institutions comprising the Andean Integration System (AIS), a series of bodies and institutions
that work to intensify Andean subregional integration, promote its external projection, and reinforce the actions connected with
the process
- Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo (IRD) en Bolivia - agreement of cooperation between the French and Bolivian
governments on cultural, scientific and technical matters
- Mercosur Organismo (Common Market of the South)
- Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) - Bolivia (Organisation of American States - Bolivia) - local office of the OAS which
aims to strengthen freedom of speech and thought as a basic human right, to promote greater participation by civil society in
decision-making at all levels of government, to improve cooperation to address the problem of illegal drugs, and to support the
process to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
- Programa de Apoyo a la Estrategia de Desarrollo Alternativo en el Chapare (PRAEDAC) (Program of Support to the Alternative
Development Strategy in the Chapare) - rural development project cofinanced by of the European Commission and the Republic
of Bolivia that seeks to contribute to the achievement of the Alternative Development objectives and purposes, with actions
aimed at reaching a rural development that benefits its inhabitants, using and strengthening the region's favourable conditions
- Foreign Embassies
- Italian Embassy in Bolivia (Ambasciata d'Italia) (La Paz)
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Human rights & civil liberties, humanitarian aid, political parties, activism, environment, and labour
- Amazon Watch - works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin
- Apoyo Para el Campesino Indígena del Oriente Boliviano (APCOB) (Confederation of Indigenous Towns of Eastern Bolivia)
(Santa Cruz) - non-government humanist organisation that promotes the participation of the indigenous towns of eastern Bolivia
in society and in the nation, exercising their rights and articulating their development proposals within the framework of their own
culture
- Asociación Burgalesa de Laboreo de Conservación (ABULAC) - non-profit association of agriculturalists who work to
disseminate technical farming knowledge that is compatible with both profitability and with the environment
- Bolivian Forum on Environment and Development (FOBOMADE) (Foro Boliviano sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo) (La Paz,
Bolivia) - academic organization linking the Bolivian socio-environment movement with social organizations, environmentalist
institutions, and people who work in their communities or support them in defending their atmospheric and natural resources
- Centro de Documentacion e Informacion Bolivia (CEDIB) (Cochabamba) - national not-governmental organization that supports
different processes from construction of citizenship, democracy and popular participation by means of programs of
(IN)FORMA-ACCIÓN, on the basis of an optimal use of the new information and comunication technologies
- Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios (CEBEM) (Bolivian Center for Multidisciplinary Studies) - association dedicated
to multidisciplinary investigation in the social sciences
- Centro de Estudios Jurídicos e Investigación Social (CEJIS) (Center of Judicial Studies and Social Research) (Santa Cruz) -
aims to develop the Bolivian legal system and contribute to the construction of a society that fully respects the human rights of
men and women alike, state sovereignty, participatory democracy, social justice, and cultural diversity
- Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado (CIPCA) (La Paz) - non-profit, non-governmental organisation that
assists farmers and indigenous peoples - men and women - to participate, within the frameworks of their culture and in a
balanced way, in the mechanisms that enable decision making, and in the production and distribution of goods and services
- Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Españolade (AECI) de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (La Paz) - organisation responsible for
the design, execution and management of projects and programs of cooperation, either directly using its own resources, or by
collaboration with other national or international organizations or with NGOs
- Conservation Internacional (CI) - Bolivia - international non-profit organization that applies innovations in science, economics,
policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity in the hotspots, major
tropical wilderness areas and key marine ecosystems, believing that the earth's natural heritage must be maintained if future
generations are to thrive spiritually, culturally and economically
- Federación de Asociaciones Municipales (FAM) (Federation of Municipal Associations) - supports the process of
decentralization in Bolivia and improvement in the quality of the local management
- Liga de Defensa del Medio Ambiente (LIDEMA) (Enviroment Defence League of Boliva) (La Paz) - organization of 27 institutions,
enviromentalist NGOs, and academics who specialize in environmental management, planning, education, basic investigation
and implementation, handling of protected areas, ecotourism, appropriate technologies and certification programs
- Obra Kolping de Bolivia - non-profit institution that promotes the development of mankind through a process of self-help
- Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud - Bolivia (PAHO-Bolivia) (Pan American Health Organisation - Bolivia) - local office of
the international public health agency whose mission is to strengthen national and local health systems and improve the health
of the peoples of the Americas
- Programa de Apoyo a la Democracia Municipal (PADEM) (Program in Support of Municipal Democracy) - project financed by
Swiss Cooperation for Development (COSUDE) and managed by Swiss Working Aid (AOS), which is aimed at contributing to
the sustainable and equitable development of municipalities, through the democratic participation of communities and via a
strategy of empowering farmers and indigenous organizations
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Office - Bolivia
- World Concern-Bolivia - local affiliate of an international ministry that manages programs and projects that focus on agricultural
and livestock production, grassroots organization development, spiritual strengthening, training, income generation, micro credit
and marketing, all of which are designed to promote the participation of the beneficiaries as agents of their own development in
order to ensure sustainability
- Political parties:
- Acción Democrática Nacionalista (National Democratic National Party)
- Izquierda Unida (IU) (United Left Party)
- Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria Nueva Mayoría (Revolutionary Left)
- Movimiento Bolivia Libre (Free Bolivia Movement)
- Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Revolution Movement)
- Nueva Fuerza Republicana (New Republican Force)
- Partido Humanista de Bolivia (Humanist Party of Bolivia)
- Vanguardia Socialista de Bolivia (VS) (Socialist Vanguard of Bolivia)
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Education, health & public safety, religion, women, children & youth, and associations & societies
- Provincia San Antonio
- Formación Calacoto - educational forum for communication and interchange for communities of the Bolivian plateau
- Education
- Colegio Bolivian Catholic (Bolivian Catholic College)
- Colegio La Salle (La Salle College)
- Colegio San Calixto
- Unidad de Servicios de la Carrrera de Literatura - organisation responsible for coordinating distance education technologies that
create a place for dialogue, formation and adaptation in serving education in Bolivia
- Universities
- Colegio Médico de La Paz (Medical College of La Paz)
- Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Sucre) - established by the Andean Parliament to serve the five nations of the Andean
subregion
- Universidad de Aquino Bolivia
- Universidad Católica Boliviana (Bolivian Catholic University)
- Universidad Católica Boliviana Cochabamba
- Universidad Católica Boliviana La Paz
- Universidad Católica Boliviana Santa Cruz
- Universidad Católica Boliviana Tarija
- Universidad Mayor de San Andrés
- Universidad Mayor de San Simón
- Universidad Nacional del Oriente
- Universidad Nuestra Señora de La Paz
- Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB)
- Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA)
- Universidad Real
- Universidad del Valle
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Ethnicity, language, the arts, history & heritage, performance, costume, and literature
- frombolivia.com - history, previews and news about cinema in Bolivia
- Fundación Literaria Javier del Granado (Cochabamba) - non-profit organisation that seeks to foster the development of literature
in Bolivia
- Galería de Arte y Cultura de Bolivia (La Paz) - art and culture gallery featuring paintings, masks, embroideries, books and videos
- Llayta - Bolivian educational and cultural network
- Museo de la Coca (Coca Museum) (La Paz)
- Pachamama Films (La Paz) - independent film production company with headquarters in New York
- Plan de Rehabilita de Areas Historicas Potosi (PRAHP) - organization responsible for the integrated rehabilitation of the
historical city of Potosí and promoting the development of tourism in the region
- Taipynquiri (La Paz) - center of culture, architecture and art
- Utopos.org - theatre, dance, music, literature, cinema, fine arts and photography
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Associations, competitions, leisure, and hobbies
- Poderoso Tigre ("The Strongest") - football club
- Club Andino Boliviano (CAB) - climbing, mountaineering and trekking in Bolivia
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Guides & advice, accommodation, attractions, transport, agents, and organisers
- Bolivia Business OnLine - business and tourism web site
- BoliviaNet - information, tourism, and culture
- Discover Bolivia!
- Hostelling Bolivia
- Kon-Tiki Tours & Travel - South American travel specialists
- LLoyd Aereo Boliviano - regional airline
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Statistics, government, economy, geography, demography, and society
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística (National Institute of Statistics)
- Bolivian Center of Multidisciplinary Studies (CEBEM) (Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios) (La Paz, Bolivia) -
(CEBEM) - non-profit association dedicated to multidisciplinary research and teaching at postgraduate level in the field of social
science
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Newspapers & magazines, journals, television & radio, publishing, and entertainment
- El Deber (Santa Cruz)
- El Diario (La Paz) - national periodical
- El Mundo (Santa Cruz)
- La Palabra (Beni)
- La Prensa (La Paz)
- La Razón (La Paz) - national newspaper
- Los Tiempos (Cochabamba) - daily on-line
- Nueva Economia - business weekly
- Opinión (Cochabamba)
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Resourcing, manufacturing, distribution, trade, and regulation of goods and services
- Bolivia Business OnLine - business and tourism web site
- Government Bodies
- Ministry of External Trade & Investment
- Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE) (Instituto Boliviano de Comercio Exterior) (Santa Cruz) - trade promotion technical
institution, which aims to assist Bolivian trade expansion into new markets
- Bolivian System of Productivity and Competition (SBPC) (Sistema Boliviano de Productividad y Competitividad) - government
body that aims to establish a strategic alliance between the sector public and academia in order to implement high-priority
public policies at the national level that eliminate structural factors that limit competitiveness
- Chambers of Commerce
- National Chamber of Commerce (Cámara Nacional de Comercio de Bolivia)
- National Chamber of Exporters of Santa Cruz (Cámara de Exportadores de Santa Cruz)
- National Chamber of Industry (Cámara Nacional de Industrias)
- Santa Cruz Chamber of Industry, Commerce and Services (CAINCO) (Cámara de Industria, Comercio y Servicios de Santa
Cruz)
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Banking, investment, insurance, stockmarkets, and market regulation
- Banco Central de Bolivia (Central bank)
- Banco Santa Cruz
- Banco Mercantil
- Banco Unión S.A.
- World Bank - Bolivia (Banco Mundial en Bolivia)
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