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.

Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.

In La Nouvelle-Heloise and Werther tragedy is made intimate.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

La Russell's run in `` Skylark '', debuting next week at Drury Lane, already is a sellout.

`` La Gioconda '', like it or not, is a singer's opera.

BAM is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is Editions De La boite A Musique.

at the supreme delights to be found in one of the world's finest restaurants, La Bonne Auberge, which is situated on the seacoast twenty miles west of the Nice airport ; ;

According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine ( 1933 ), " If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity ?".

The image is the combination of the 2. 2-metre MPG / ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0. 4-meter amateur telescope.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

La Grande Chartreuse is a Carthusian abbey north of Grenoble, France

Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

* A scale model of Casa Milà ( La Pedrera ) is exhibited at the Catalunya en Miniatura park.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* Earliest date on which La Tomatina can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Wednesday in August.

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

* 1303 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.

The theme is likely folk derived and is known as La Folia.

La Guardia joined the State Department and served in U. S. consulates in Budapest, Trieste ( Italy ), and Fiume ( Austria-Hungary ), now Rijeka ( Croatia ), ( 1901 – 1906 ).

La Guardia served in the U. S. consulate in Rijeka during the period before World War I when the city was under Austro-Hungarian rule and was known under its Italian name Fiume.

Nicolas Chauvin is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is supposed to have served in the First Army of the French Republic and subsequently in La Grande Armée of Napoleon.

Versailles is served by Versailles – Chantiers station, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line C, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line, and on several national rail lines, including low-frequency TGV service.

Higher education is served by the Wodonga Institute of TAFE and La Trobe University.

Also involved in theatre ( having served as playwright at the Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde ), Carrier has adapted La guerre, yes sir!

He joined the board of La Caixa, Spain's largest savings bank, in 1984, and served as President of the board from 1987 to 1999.

It was in La Castellane that Zidane had his earliest introduction to football, joining in at the age of five in football games that the neighbourhood's children played on the Place Tartane, an 80-by-12-yard plaza that served as the main square of the housing complex.

His family, although belonging only to the lesser nobility of Poitou, was somewhat prominent: his father, François du Plessis, seigneur de Richelieu, was a soldier and courtier, who served as the Grand Provost of France ; his mother, Susanne de La Porte, was the daughter of a famous jurist.

Beginning on October 22, 1999, Papon served time at the La Santé Prison in Paris.

It is also served by several TER Poitou-Charentes regional railway routes, including a route from Poitiers via Niort to La Rochelle, a route from Niort to Saintes, and a route from Tours to Thouars and Bressuire.

Most of La Salle County is served by the Cotulla Independent School District.

Bayou La Batre is served by the Mobile County Public School System.

Because of its western location, which saved days of sailing time, La Rochelle enjoyed successful fishing in the western Atlantic and trading with the New World, which served to counterbalance the disadvantage of not being at the mouth of a river ( useful for shipping goods to and from the interior ).

La Rochelle and its region are served by the international La Rochelle-Île de Ré Airport, which has progressively developed over the last 5 years.

La Riviera is served by both the Sacramento City Unified School District and the Folsom-Cordova School District.

La Presa is served by a 91977 ZIP code, which is considered Spring Valley according to the USPS.

Countryside is served by La Grange School District 105.

Since its inception, the open space has served the parishes of La Salle, Winn, Grant, and Caldwell, and it is now called the Olla Fairgrounds.

Hardtner served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from La Salle Parish as well as long service on the La Salle Parish Police Jury.

The city is served by the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.