In modern times, the largest Andean cities are Bogota, Colombia, with a population of about eight million, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador.

Several major cities exist either in the Andes or in the foothills, among which are Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, Colombia ; Quito, Ecuador ; Mérida, Venezuela ; La Paz, Bolivia ; Santiago, Chile, and Cusco, Peru.

* 1993 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.

* Bolivia-yes-same gauge-from Arica to La Paz, Bolivia

In November 2003, an Ecuadorian United Nations Training Centre was established under the name of: ( La Unidad Escuela de Misiones de Paz “ Ecuador ”).

As World Bank President Robert McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices will get preferential access to resources, doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, called it insulting that money should be exchanged for the conscience of a Catholic nation.

* La Paz, Bolivia

* 1809 – The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.

** Feria de Alasitas ( La Paz )

Octavio Paz addresses the issue of La Malinche's role as the mother of Mexican culture in The Labyrinth of Solitude.

# Barrio de La Paz

He composed and recorded some Mambos in Mexico, with Mexican orchestras, especially with the one directed by Rafael de Paz ; they recorded Yiri yiri bon, La Culebra, Mata siguaraya, Solamente una vez and " Bonito y Sabroso ", a song where he praises the dancing skills of the Mexicans, and claims that Mexico City and La Habana are sister cities.

* 1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz ( Our Lady of Peace ) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.

In 1980 the Ninth Organization of American States General Assembly, meeting in La Paz, Bolivia, condemned human rights violations in Paraguay, describing torture and disappearances as " an affront to the hemisphere's conscience ".

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress tells of a war of independence waged by the Lunar penal colonies, with significant comments from a major character, Professor La Paz, regarding the threat posed by government to individual freedom.

* July 16 – The city of La Paz ( current Bolivia ) declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.

* November 3 – Troops of William Walker capture La Paz in Baja California and declare the ( short-lived ) Republic of Lower California.

TeleSUR has regional offices in Caracas, Bogotá, Brasília, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, La Paz, Lima, Quito, Managua and Washington DC.

* July 16 – La Paz becomes the capital of Brazil.

Nuestra Señora de La Paz (; ; ) is the seat of government of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of the La Paz Department, and the second largest city in the country ( in population ) after Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

* La fanciulla del West, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini ( premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, 10 December 1910 )

As of 2007, the Metropolitan Opera alone has given more than 1, 100 performances of the opera, making it the second most frequently performed work by the company behind La bohème.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

Don recounts to Nat how he met Helen three years earlier at the Metropolitan Opera after a matinee performance of La Traviata.

La Plaza de los Españoles, which is known today as the Plaza Murillo, was chosen as the location for government buildings as well as the Metropolitan Cathedral.

He has over the years created several productions for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, including La bohème, Tosca, and Turandot.

* La Bohème ( 1982 ) ( live Metropolitan Opera – stage director )

Seurat made several studies for the large painting including a smaller version, Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ( 1884 – 1885 ), that is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

File: Georges Seurat 034. jpg | Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ,, 1884 – 1885, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

*" Metropolitan Opera: La Gioconda.

The theatre's opening on May 25, the Día de la Patria in Argentina, featured a performance of Verdi's Aida and it quickly became a world-famous operatic venue rivaling La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in attracting most of the world's best opera singers and conductors.

In the early 20th century, revivals of the opera were associated particularly with the famous Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin: he sang the title role on the occasion of his first appearance outside Russia ( La Scala, Milan, 16 March 1901 ) and also on his North American debut ( Metropolitan Opera, New York, 20 November 1907 ).

The La Crosse Metropolitan Statistical Area includes all of La Crosse County and Houston County, Minnesota, to the west.

Caledonia is a city in Houston County, Minnesota, United States and is part of the La Crosse, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

La Pine is part of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area.

La Vergne lies within the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the La Crosse, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the La Crosse, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It lies on an island of a similar name, with which it is not coextensive ; most of the island is part of the city of La Crosse, but all are part of the La Crosse Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the La Crosse, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The settlements of La Yaguana, and Bayaja, on the west and north coasts respectively of modern day Haiti were burned, as were the settlements of Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata on the north coast and San Juan de la Maguana in the south western area of the modern day Dominican Republic.

The government is also developing ports and infrastructure in La Union in the east of the country, in order to use the area as a " dry canal " for transporting goods from Gulf of Fonseca in the Pacific Ocean to Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean in the north.

Indeed the Republic of Independent Guyana, in French La République de la Guyane indépendante and commonly referred to by the name of the capital " Counani ", was created in the area which was disputed by France ( as part of French Guyana ) and Brazil in the late nineteenth century.

Gers, a department of France, is within this region and has high quality poultry, while La Montagne Noire and Lacaune area offers high quality hams and dry sausages.

Over the same period that Hellenism was spreading through the Mediterranean world, northern and western Europe were dominated by the La Tène culture, a precursor to the Celts that would populate the same area during the Roman age.

In 1901, Vaccaro Brothers and Company established offices in La Ceiba and Salado and eventually controlled the banana industry between Boca Cerrada and Balfate ( an area of about 80 kilometers of coastline ).

The number, size and visible locations of these megalithic monuments ( especially La Hougue Bie ) have suggested that social organisation over a wide area, including surrounding coasts, was required for the construction.

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye opened the area west of lake Superior and in 1738 reached the Mandan villages on the upper Missouri in North Dakota.

Governor La Trobe offered the MCC a choice of three sites ; an area adjacent to the existing ground, a site at the junction of Flinders and Spring Streets or a ten-acre ( about 4 hectares ) section of the Government Paddock at Richmond next to Richmond Park.

They continued the exploration of the New World: René Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled in the area of the Great Lakes, then on the Mississippi River.

The entire village of Gruyères and the La Part-Dieu area are part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

In June 1747, concerned about the incursion and expanding influence of British traders such as George Croghan in the Ohio Country, Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, the Governor-General of New France, ordered Pierre-Joseph Céloron to lead a military expedition through the area.

In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had claimed a large territory, including the Chicago area, for France.

* La Estanzuela state park, about south of Monterrey, a river and forested area.

In the area of La Maddalena island in the Strait of Bonifacio, it is a tourist destination and is famous as the place to which Giuseppe Garibaldi retired ( 1856 – 82 ).

This area houses the most affluent and exclusive neighborhoods of the city, like Calacoto, La Florida and Achumani, among others.

The most important mountainous area is an Alpine zone including the Lepontine and Rhaetian Alps, ( Piz Bernina – La Spedla, 4, 020 m ), the Bergamo Alps, the Ortler Alps and the Adamello massif ; it is followed by an Alpine foothills zone Prealpi, which include the main peaks are the Grigna Group ( 2, 410 m ), Resegone ( 1, 875 m ) and Presolana ( 2, 521 m ).

The area stretches north-east from the La Plata Mountains in Southwestern Colorado to the Front Range near Boulder, Colorado.

A trail is marked from the northern end of Lake George to the area near Fort Ticonderoga, which is located to the north of the mouth of the La Chute.