Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia ranks 93rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hong Kong, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Moldova. Memorable people born in present day Bolivia include Evo Morales, René Barrientos, and Hugo Banzer. Memorable people who died in Bolivia include Che Guevara, Butch Cassidy, and René Barrientos. Bolivia has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players.

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco, warm valleys, high-altitude Andean plateaus, and snow-capped peaks, encompassing a wide range of climates and biomes across its regions and cities. It includes part of the Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland in the world, along its eastern border. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government is La Paz, which contains the executive, legislative, and electoral branches of government, while the constitutional capital is Sucre, the seat of the judiciary. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales, a mostly flat region in the east of the country with a diverse non-Andean culture. Read more on Wikipedia