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Bolivian and Andes
Woodbine Parish and Joseph Barclay Pentland surveyed a large part of the Bolivian Andes from 1826 to 1827.
The mean inter-annual contribution of the Bolivian Andes is, i. e. yr, representing 25 % of the discharge of the entire upper Madeira basin.
coca ( Bolivian or Huanuco Coca )-well adapted to the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia, an area of humid, tropical, montane forest.
* 1982-Story on " The New Missionary " makes December 27 cover of Time magazine ; Andes Evangelical Mission ( formerly Bolivian Indian Mission </ ref > merges into SIM ( formerly Sudan Interior Mission </ ref >
All of this changed when oil was found on the foothills of the Andes, deep in Bolivian territory.
The natural barrier of the Andes mountains divided the Bolivian altiplano from Atacama, preventing the Bolivians from colonizing the area.
" It was later pointed out to him that a ) Bolivia is landlocked and has no coast ( Burton was chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee ); b ) the Bolivian coca fields ( in the yungas and Amazon lowlands ) are beyond the reach of any carrier-borne crop-duster, being separated from the nearest coastline ( the Pacific coast of Peru and Chile ) by the 20, 000 + feet high peaks of the Andes ; and c ) F-18s cannot crop-dust.
Theodore Tomaras, a physicist at the University of Crete in Heraklion, Greece, and his Russian collaborators hypothesize that these miniature black holes could explain certain anomalous observations made by cosmic-ray detectors in the Bolivian Andes and on a mountain in Tajikistan.
In 1896 – 97 he explored the interior of Spitsbergen, and the following year he explored and surveyed the Bolivian Andes, climbing Sorata ( 21, 500 ft / 6, 553 m ) and Illimani ( 21, 200 ft / 6, 461 m ).
* The Bolivian Andes, 1901
He had been working meantime as a civil servant in the India Office, and in 1859 he made proposals to his employers for a scheme for collecting cinchona trees from the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, and transplanting them to selected sites in India.
In 1903, C. A. W. Schnuse, collecting at Sarampiuni in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes, took 4 specimens, all female, of a fly with a strange broad, flat head.
The Pilcomayo rises in the foothills of the Andes cordillera, between the Bolivian departments of Potosí and Oruro, east of Poopó Lake.
Illimani is the name of a mountain in the Bolivian Andes.
Similar ideas were also held by Emeterio Villamil de Rada, in his book La Lengua de Adán he attempted to prove that Aymara was the original language of mankind and that humanity had originated in Sorata in the Bolivian Andes.
* 1998-Bolivia – expedition to the Bolivian Andes, reaching the summit of Huayna Potosi, journey to Amazonia, with Børge Ousland ;
In 1969, he and his group discovered the mass of the so-called fireballs, a phenomenon induced by naturally occurring high-energy collisions, and which was detected by means of special lead-chamber nuclear emulsion plates invented by him, and placed at the Chacaltaya peak of the Bolivian Andes.
This suyu encompassed the Bolivian Altiplano and much of the southern Andes, running down into Argentina and as far south as the Maule river near modern Santiago, Chile.
Chacaltaya ( Aymara for " cold road ") is a mountain in the Cordillera Real, one of the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental, itself a range of the Bolivian Andes.
Some, including Bolivian President Evo Morales and Diego Maradona, reacted by claiming the new measure discriminated primarily against high-altitude nations in Latin America, especially those in the Andes.
Los Andes is one of the twenty provinces in the central parts of the Bolivian La Paz Department.
The Spanish name of the province means " The Andes ", referring to its position within the Cordillera Real which is part of the Bolivian Andes mountain range.

Bolivian and produce
On March 1, Daza issued instead a decree which prohibited all commerce and communications with Chile " while the state-of-war provoked upon Bolivia lasts ," provided Chileans ten days to leave Bolivian territory unless gravely ill or handicapped, embargoed Chilean furniture, property, and mining produce, allowed Chilean mining companies to continue operating under a government-appointed administrator, and provided all embargoes as temporary " unless the hostilities exercised by Chilean forces requires an energetic retaliation from Bolivia.

Bolivian and tin
* 1952 – Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
* April 9 – Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, which starts a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines.
This change reflected the shift of the Bolivian economy away from the largely exhausted silver mines of Potosí to the exploitation of tin near Oruro, and resulting shifts in the distribution of economic and political power among various national elites.
Monazite from certain carbonatites or from Bolivian tin veins is essentially thorium-free.
* Uncia ( mine ), a Bolivian tin mine
His first wife, whom he married when 20, was the Bolivian heiress Maria Isabel Patiño, 17-year-old daughter of tin magnate Antenor Patiño and the 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal, of the Spanish royal family.
Posadas became the leader of the Latin America Bureau of the Fourth International and, under his guidance, the movement gained some influence in the region, particularly among Cuban railway workers, Bolivian tin miners and agricultural workers in Brazil.
Previous to a political shift away from his allies in the government Patiño merged the company owning his Bolivian tin property with a British company active in Malaysia.

Bolivian and although
For this reason, and to prevent a break-up, Bolívar sought to implement a more centralist model of government in Gran Colombia, including some or all of the elements of the Bolivian constitution he had written, which included a lifetime presidency with the ability to select a successor ( although theoretically, this presidency was held in check by an intricate system of balances ).
The same day the Bolivian legislature authorized a formal declaration of war upon Chile, although it was not immediately announced.
In November 2011, the Bolivian and U. S. governments agreed to restore diplomatic relations, although Morales refused to allow U. S. agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) back into the country.
It is a style partially based on the Peruvian, Bolivian and Mexican cumbia with some Andean styles, although it has his own identity based on a faster beat and different arrangements.

Bolivian and historically
In 2008 Gustavo Guzmán, the Bolivian ambassador to Washington said " The U. S. embassy is historically used to calling the shots in Bolivia, violating our sovereignty, treating us like a banana republic.

Bolivian and silver
Potosi, located in Trelawny, Jamaica, was named after the fabled Bolivian silver mine and originally belonged to Thomas Partridge of St. James ( this was before the parish of Trelawny came into existence ).

Bolivian and mining
There is currently no mining plant at the site, and the Bolivian government doesn't want to allow exploitation by foreign corporations.
* Museo Etnográfico Minero ( Ethnographical Mining Museum ): housed in a mine tunnel, depicts methods of Bolivian mining
This " mining discovery " came, according to historians Gabriel Salazar and Julio Pinto, into existence trough the conquest of Bolivian and Peruvian lands.
La Voz del Minero, Radio Pío XII, RadioVanguardia de Colquiri, Radio Animas, Radio 21 de Diciembre, and Radio Nacional de Huanuni were some of the most important radio stations created, funded and managed by Bolivian mining workers.
A film by Bolivian filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, The Courage of the People, reenacts the attack on the mining district of Siglo XX by the army in June 1967.
The miners ' radio stations were important because of the importance of mining in Bolivia ; Bolivian miners were also influential because for several decades they had a powerful means to communicate their ideas.
The concession for the mining of this raw material was obtained by Domingo Latrille at the hands of the Bolivian government, which would last until 1842.
Guevara felt that such an atrocity by the Bolivian Army and Air Force would be the tipping point in his favour in rallying the miners to his Communist cause, but eventually the miners signed with government-owned mining company, Siglo XX, an agreement which Guevara felt undermined his reason for being there.
While the army was fighting the guerrillas, the miners of Siglo XX ( a state-owned Bolivian mining town ) declared themselves in support of the insurgency, prompting the president to send troops to regain control.
* Kori Kollo: The Kori Kollo open pit mine is on a high plain in northwestern Bolivia near Oruro, on government mining concessions issued to a Bolivian corporation, Empresa Minera Inti Raymi S. A. (“ Inti Raymi ”), in which Newmont had an 88 % interest.

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