| South America's primary mountain range,
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| | still lost their land as did their
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| the Andes, attains one of its widest
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| | Peruvian and Ecuadorian counterparts.
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| points in Bolivia. Here the Andes are
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| | However, what made the richer Europeans
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| divided into two subranges, Cordillera
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| | in Bolivia wealthy was not land but
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| Oriental and Cordillera Occidental. Peaks
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| | minerals.The city of Potosi in the
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| in these areas are in excess of 20,000
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| | Cordillera Oriental became well--known
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| feet. Between these subranges lies the
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| | for the huge silver deposits in its
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| Altiplano which contains the highest
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| | surroundings. Zinc, copper, and other
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| navigable lake on earth. Lake Titicaca,
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| | ores were found there. Bolivia's tin
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| which also lies in Peru, is 12,507 feet
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| | deposits provided a large portion of the
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| above sea level.Also in the Altiplano is
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| | country's export income throughout most
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| one of Bolivia's capitals, La Paz. At
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| | of the twentieth century. But in the
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| 11,700 feet it is one of the highest
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| | 1980's, tin reserves declined and that
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| cities in the world. This region is home
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| | along with weak world prices reached the
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| to one of the centers of Inca
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| | point where Bolivia's antiquated mining
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| civilization and pre--Inca cultures.Lake
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| | methods forced the industry to all but
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| Titicaca is what helps make the Altiplano
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| | shut down.Oil and gas are now accounting
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| livable. This body of water is large
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| | for an increasing portion of foreign
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| enough to temper the coldness in its
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| | revenues. Bolivia exports much of it gas
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| vicinity. Grains have been raised for
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| | to Argentina and Brazil. In return,
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| centuries on the surrounding arable land
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| | Brazil is commtted to assisting the
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| up to the amazing elevation of 12,800
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| | development of the corridor between Santa
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| feet. The area supports a major group of
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| | Cruz and Corumba, Brazil, in the
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| subsistence farmers to this day.Bolivia
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| | southeastern lowlands. It is here that
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| has had a troubled history. Aside from
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| | commercial agriculture--especially
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| numerous internal struggles, the country
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| | soybeans--is on the rise.Comparatively
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| first lost its access to the Pacific
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| | democratic civilian rule was established
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| Ocean in a conflict with Chile. It then
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| | in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult
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| lost its northern territory of Acre to
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| | problems of deep-seated poverty, social
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| Brazil in a dispute involving the rubber
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| | unrest, and drug production. Current
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| industry in the Amazon Basin. On top of
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| | goals include attracting foreign
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| all that, Bolivia was forced to give up
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| | investment, strengthening the educational
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| 55,000 square miles of southeastern Gran
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| | system, resolving disputes with coca
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| Chaco territory to Paraguay. Bolivia has
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| | growers over Bolivia's counterdrug
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| reactivated its claim to restore the
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| | efforts, and waging an anticorruption
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| Atacama corridor, ceded to Chile in 1884,
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| | campaign. The country does have its
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| to secure sovereign maritime access for
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| | problems, but it also has its optimism.J.
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| Bolivian natural gas.Modern Bolivia is
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| | Chartwell has developed Maps GPS
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| the product of European domination,
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| | Info.com, which provides practical
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| however that influence has not affected
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| | information on GPS and maps that everyone
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| some of the Amerindian population
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| | can use. The website includes product
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| clusters. But these indigenous Bolivians
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| | reviews and a maps/GPS glossary.
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