Bolivian Thoughts in an Emerging World struggles with current events in Bolivia, they are mostly political and economical inefficiencies which makes our lives harder than usual. However, from time to time I can provide good news and this page will be updated with the links of my posts which show OUR HERITAGE who, despite all our harsh endeavors, give us the light and energy to continue. [Picture is from San Jose de Chiquitos, Santa Cruz]
This page has one of the three categories that The Hall of Bolivian Fame page has. Please click on the names, places you want to see, thank you.
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The Living Experiment of Jesuit Missions | El Experimento Vivo de las Misiones Jesuíticas
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La Paz: A City of Altitude, Attitude, and Ambition | Una ciudad de altura, carácter y ambición
- Tribute to Marshal Andrés de Santa Cruz | Homenaje al Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz
- Bolivia breaks record in the Memory of the World, registering eight documents | Bolivia rompe récord en la Memoria del Mundo, inscribió ocho documentos
- Toro Toro: caves, waterfalls, and dinosaur footprints | cavernas, cascadas y huellas de dinosaurios
- Urcupiña
- Food in Potosi | 1830 | Comida en Potosí
- A precise colonial clock in the Casa de Moneda | Un preciso reloj colonial en la Casa de Moneda
- Next dining destination | Próximo destino gastronómico
- The Jesuits’ musical legacy: A mission opera debuts in Bolivia | El legado musical de los jesuitas: Se estrena una ópera misional en Bolivia
- Recovering the gold and silver will be a “historical vindication” | Recuperar el oro y plata será “reivindicación histórica”
- Potosí 1773 | Mint House – Casa de la Moneda | 250 years – años
- Festival of Renaissance and Baroque American Music – “Misiones de Chiquitos” – Festival Internacional de Música Renacentista y Barroca Americana
- La Ruta De Las Lagunas
- The Custom of Shrove (Carnival) Tuesday | La Costumbre del Martes de Carnaval
- Carnival in Potosi w/o water | Carnaval Potosi sin agua
- The Pilgrimage Saturday left its mark on the hearts of the faithful of Oruro and the country | El sábado de Peregrinación dejó su huella en los corazones de los fieles de Oruro y el país
- Christmas Eve Bolivian food! – ¡Comida boliviana de Nochebuena!
- Feliz Navidad BOLIVIA
- In search of El Dorado | En busca de El Dorado
- Bolivia: Among the 100 best cuisines in the world | Entre las 100 mejores cocinas del mundo
- Christmas: Family legacies and rituals | Navidad: Legados y rituales en familia
- The legend of the four plagues is a symbol of the Diablada | La leyenda de las cuatro plagas es símbolo de la Diablada
- Rich and Diverse Culture | Cultura rica y diversa
- 10 things you didn’t know about Potosí | 10 cosas que no sabías sobre Potosí
- The Man-Eating Mountain | La montaña devoradora de hombres
- What is the oldest town in Bolivia? | ¿Cuál es el pueblo más antiguo de Bolivia?
- SUCRE: One of the most historic cities in the world | Una de las más históricas ciudades del mundo
- Tinku Festival
- In August the Missionary Music and Theater Festival arrives in Chiquitos | En agosto llega el Festival de Música Misional y Teatro en Chiquitos
- Tacana: Tejidos Ancestrales | Ancestral Weaving
- Inside the mine, a tour through the bowels of Cerro Rico | Interior de la mina, un tour por las entrañas del Cerro Rico
- Dance of Diablada is 100% Bolivian‼️
- Un viaje familiar por carretera a través de los Andes salvajes hasta el salar de Bolivia | A Family Road Trip Through the Wild Andes to Bolivia’s Salt Flats
- Calle Jaén: Colonial history | Historia colonial
- Potosí: Mint figurehead shows off its splendor | Mascarón de Casa de Moneda luce su esplendor
- Bolivian Textiles: Girdle/Sash – Faja – Wak’a – Chumpikuna
- Nuevas Rutas en la Cordillera Real de Bolivia | New Routes on Bolivia’s Cordillera Real
- Did you taste Guindol? – ¿Probaste Guindol?
- The chairo paceño, the first dish that indigenous and Spanish shared | El chairo paceño, el primer platillo que compartieron indígenas y españoles
- Corpus Christi
- What is the comparative advantage of singani over pisco? – ¿Cuál es la ventaja comparativa del singani sobre el pisco?
- La Paz holds record “downhill”! – ¡La Paz ostenta récord de “cuesta abajo”!
- Ritual Site Connected to Ancient Andean Cults Discovered in Bolivia | Sitio ritual relacionado con antiguos cultos andinos descubierto en Bolivia
- The Yampara Nation invites the Pucara and Pujllay Autochthonous – La Nación Yampara invita a la Pucara y Pujllay Autóctono
- Irresponsible parenthood – Paternidad irresponsable
- Lambs’s head, a favorite dish for Bolivia’s night owls | Cabeza de cordero, plato favorito de los noctámbulos bolivianos
- To learn more about Bolivia | Para conocer más de Bolivia
- The United States recognizes the singani as a distinctive product of Bolivia | Estados Unidos reconoce al singani como producto distintivo de Bolivia
- Christmas traditions are lived with a parade, picana and chocolate | Tradiciones navideñas se viven con entrada, picana y chocolate
- Bolivia: Pique a lo macho
- Museum of Ethnology places historical pieces in a 3D virtual showcase | Museo de Etnología coloca piezas históricas en vitrina virtual 3D
- Bolivia’s six top restaurants in Latin America
- Gastronomy – BOLIVIA – Gastronomía
- Southern women who made history | Mujeres sureñas que hicieron historia
- Poetess – ADELA ZAMUDIO – Poetisa
- Who gave the right to vote to Bolivian women? | ¿Quién dio el derecho al voto a las mujeres bolivianas?
- TOROTORO
- Corn | Maiz
- MAIRANA: two thousand year old pyramid | Pirámide de 2 mil años de antigüedad
- Lady accessories from the colonial period | Accesorios de dama del periodo colonial
- Bartolomé Arsánz – Potosí
- Indigenous nation Araona in peril – Nación indígena Araona en peligro
- Yuqui women take power to care for forests and fight extinction | Las mujeres yuqui toman poder para cuidar bosques y combatir extinción
- Tarija: Mastodon tusk | Colmillo de mastodonte
- Christ of the Vera Cruz is patron saint of Potosí | Cristo de la Vera Cruz es patrono de Potosi
- Hot sauce – Llajua
- Volcanic soup – K’alapurka
- Camba utensils – Utensilios cambas
- Crash damages 1685 wooden door – Un choque daña una puerta de madera de 1685
- Qhochala chola hat | Sombrero de chola qhochala
- The Santa Cruz temples are filled with baroque music for four days | Los templos cruceños se llenan de música barroca por cuatro días
- Weavers are waiting to rewrite their history and rich culture | Tejedores están a la espera de volver a escribir su historia y su rica cultura
- The ancient people who reshaped the Amazon | Las misteriosas civilizaciones que inspiraron la leyenda de El Dorado
- They promote jewelry from the School of Silversmithing in Potosí | Promueven joyas de la Escuela de Platería en Potosí
- Urkupiña: Tradition and religious Faith | Tradición y Fé religiosa
- Bolivian cuisine: ‘Uchuku aiquileño’
- What if the Mint House did not exist? | ¿Y si la Casa de Moneda no existiera?
- Bolivian cuisine 101: Picante de pollo; Saice; Pique macho
- Colegio Pichincha, Potosí
- They open funerary museum in the “street of pneumonia” | Abren museo funerario en la “calle de la pulmonía”
- “Let the jungle not run out of music” “Que la selva no se quede sin música”
- From adornment to figure of power: the evolution of the chola in the morenada | De adorno a figura de poder: la evolución de la chola en la morenada
- In Bolivia’s Silver Mountain, Artisanal Miners Turn to Coca and the Devil | En la Montaña de Plata de Bolivia, los mineros artesanales recurren a la coca y al diablo
- Pre-Columbian City | Ciudad precolombina
- Chuquisaca: flavor and culture | sabor y cultura
- San Pedro de Macha, Potosí: Festival of the Cross | Fiesta de la Cruz
- Indigenous conductor shone with Juilliard415 – Directora indígena se lució con Juilliard415
- What is the relationship between Potosí and Don Quixote de la Mancha? – ¿Cuál es la relación entre Potosí y Don Quijote de la Mancha?
- The tradition of blooming Easter in Potosí and its provinces – La tradición de la pascua florida en Potosí y sus provincias
- What to eat at Easter – Qué comer en Semana Santa
- Museum of Instruments – Museo de Instrumentos
- The 17 best things to do in Bolivia, from the dazzling Salar de Uyuni to the Amazon Rainforest
- Iskanwaya
- Bolivia = Charango!
- Great Pukara and Pujllay is lived today in Tarabuco – Gran Pukara y Pujllay se vive hoy en Tarabuco
- Potosi: C’hutillos Festival to the UNESCO
- Misiones de Chiquitos: American Renaissance and Baroque Music – Música Renacentista y Barroca Americana
- Everything you need to know before you visit Bolivia
- Ecclesiastical Museum, historical jewel, alternative for locals and visitors – Museo Eclesiástico, joya histórica, alternativa para propios y extraños
- Mansion of El Guereo
- Sephardim in Bolivia – Sefarditas en Bolivia
- The National Museum of Art presents the catalog of the legacy of Inés Córdova and Gil Imaná – El Museo Nacional de Arte presenta el catálogo del legado de Inés Córdova y Gil Imaná
- The eternal potato – La papa eterna
- Charango
- Alasitas: Bolivia’s festival of miniatures and dreams
- The traditional Potosi Christmas does not have colonial origins – La Navidad tradicional potosina no tiene orígenes coloniales
- Bolivian Christmas ritual – Ritual boliviano en Navidad
- The city by the mountain of silver
- Oruro – Carnaval 2022
- Bolivia: Levanta pañuelos para celebrar el Día de la Cueca – Raises handkerchiefs to celebrate Cueca Day
- Cerro Rico Potosi: IN PERIL – EN PELIGRO
- Comer – Bolivia – Eat
- Heroines, women and mothers – Heroínas, mujeres y madres
- After morenada scandal, Potosí will nominate Ch’utillos – Tras escándalo por morenada, Potosí postulará a Ch’utillos
- Wiphala: an invention that harms – un invento que perjudica
- The Charm Of The Charango
- Un corto animado rescata la leyenda del Salar de Uyuni – An animated short rescues the legend of the Salar de Uyuni
- Wanderlust: Lake Titicaca
- Navidad – 2020 – Christmas
- The Mysterious Sajama Lines
- Potosí: 210 years of freedom!
- El traje de chola tiene origen europeo – The chola costume has European origin
- Todos Santos potosino – All Saints in Potosí
- Happy 195 Bolivia
- Bolivian pleasures
- Mummified Corpse Discovered in Bolivia’s Salt Flats
- The pollera skirt: flag or stigma? – La pollera: ¿bandera o estigma?
- Glyptodon, giant ancestor of the armadillo – Gliptodonte, ancestro gigante del quirquincho
- Women conquer space in Bolivia’s Carnival of Oruro
- Skiing in Bolivia!
- 1943, La Paz city, a superb video!
- Early Bolivian Amazon humans – Primeros Bolivianos en el Amazonas
- Honoring Pachamama Central to Bolivian Culture
- What Is Alasitas And Why Do Bolivians Celebrate It?
- Tiwanaku rituals and gastronomic recipes are recovered – Recuperan rituales y recetas gastronómicas de Tiwanaku
- Hike and explore Inca ruins on Lake Titicaca’s largest island
- ‘Everything is burned’: Bolivian caravan marches across fire-ravaged region to pressure Morales
- More than 2 million animals perish in Bolivia wildfires
- Correction: Bolivia-Tiwanaku Vessels story … NOT 400 but 1,400 years!
- The bells of San Francisco are refurbished to toll again
- Bolivia’s fires destroy ‘heritage’ rock art sites
- Bolivian food reflects our mestizo roots!
- 500 species at risk due to fire in the Chiquitano Forest
- Bolivia’s identity in nine hats
- National exotic food for extravagant tastes
- The Charango Museum, one of the best works of Ernesto Cavour
- Tarija chooses saice as her flag dish
- Bolivian gastronomic complexity and complication
- In the abandonment, the church of San Andrés de Machaca deteriorates
- We’re Convinced Bolivia is the Most Magical Place on Earth
- Have you visited Isla del Sol? These are its attractions
- Torotoro National Park Dinosaur Footprints
- Bolivia’s Most Colorful Neighborhood
- Harsh, gruelling, awesome
- Tourism 101: Lonely Planet’s Bolivia: South America’s diverse and intriguing jewel
- Apple Releases two Spanish Ads focused on the iPhone XS Documenting the lives of Bolivian Women Wrestlers
- Takesi, pre-Columbian jewel of Yanacachi
- The historical and critical narration of Querejazu about national pictorial art
- Drug Residues Detected on Ancient Ritual Bundle From Bolivia
- A unique tour of Bolivia, from cathedrals and markets to the world’s first salt hotel
- Burials in Bolivia’s ‘Forest Islands’ Offer Insights Into Early South Americans
- Chili [ají], the spicy face of Bolivia
- Bolivia’s indigenous mark ‘Palm Sunday’ with annual fair
- Vivid, strange and yet to be ruined by tourists – why Bolivia should be on your wish list
- Canvas of the Virgen del Socavón was restored
- Urus offer crafts to support families
- Neglect, rain threatening ‘Sistine Chapel of the Andes’
- They discover the procedure to stop the deterioration of Samaipata rock
- Pepino the Cucumber comes back to life as Bolivia kicks off carnival – 2019
- Miniature Fair in Bolivia: Alasitas 2019 – Jan 24 to Feb 24
- Ancient Hidden City Discovered Under Lake Titicaca
- From Chiquitania to salar, travel for a different end of the year
- Chincana Ruins
- Archaeologists Discover 15th Century Indigenous Tombs in Bolivia
- I am Potosino, between a hymn and the Libertarian Efforts – Humberto Iporre Salinas
- Torotoro National Park seeks to become a new “Jurassic park”
- The Christ tattooed on rock has its natural sanctuary in Pazña
- Chefs look for the peanut soup to be the flag dish of Bolivia
- MSU was given a mummy from Bolivia in 1890. Now the university is returning it.
- Bolivian dessert: Rice with milk we want to eat!
- Sculpture Biennial brings together 20 experts in Comanche
- Bolivian money 101: What was the first banknote of Bolivia?
- Bolivia arrives at exhibition in Paris with Aymara architecture and fashion
- They deliver the regulation of the Law of the Bolivian cueca
- Ministry of Cultures recovers 70 religious pieces of four epochs
- Miracles and legends of the Lord of the True Cross, patron of Potosí
- Bolivian cuisine 101: The “llajwa”, an idyll with the Bolivian palate
- Old missionary manuscript in Bolivia was immortalized
- Bolivian chefs are trading colonial cuisine for national pride
- The Bolivian National Museum of Art celebrates its 52 years
- Excavations to expose Tiwanaku’s greatness require a 50 year plan
- THE DYING ART OF THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL WEAVING: BOLIVIA!
- Angels and devils battle it out at Bolivian festival: Señor del Gran Poder [Lord of the Great Power]
- To comprehend Tiwanaku people: Anthropologist Plots New Use for Motion-Capture Technology
- Resurrection in Ñaurenda, Bolivia
- Reconstructing ancient skulls in Tiahuanaco, Bolivia
- An application is prepared to admire Bolivian archaeological sites
- It’s okay to know they like our folklore, but please do NOT SAY is yours!
- Bolivian Christmas 101: Rag dolls and brass cars: how about those times!
- IN BOLIVIA, CHRISTMAS IS CELEBRATED FROM CHRISTMAS EVE UNTIL EPIPHANY
- Bolivia won the South America’s Leading Cultural Destination 2017
- La Paz, Bolivia guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels
- Tsimané of Bolivia: Parents in a Remote Amazon Village Barely Talk to Their Babies—and the Kids Are Fine
- Alasitas made to the Intangible Heritage List of the UNESCO
- Torotoro: Bolivia’s best kept secret!
- November 10, 2017: Potosí celebrates 207 anniversary
- Tiwanaku, older and more important civilization than the Incas, makes it way to Japan
- Bolivian Heritage 101: They find 2 corners of a new temple in Tiwanaku
- Bolivian Heritage 101: The floating islands of the Lake of the Incas
- Bolivian History 101: Our Tango Illimani
- What locals call the ‘gates of hell’: inside the infamous mines of Potosi
- Underwater archaeologists dig in Lake Titicaca
- Tiwanaku: Population inhabits pre-Hispanic city … the one that gave construction technology to the Incas
- Environmental damage continues to affect our National Heritage: Cerro Rico
- Bolivia and the trades of yesterday
- Bolivian men and women in violent harvest festival punch up, in pictures
- History 101: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’
- A hundred years’ research of the Puerta del Sol
- History 101: Potosi and the coins
- The charm of streetcars in La Paz … trams should be back!
- Bolivian Archaeologists Dig For Rare Artifacts
- Bolivian Islands may be cause of action, you hear?… Chile?!
- The true age of the city of La Paz
- The National Museum of Art recovers the Baroque Mestizo polychrome
- A walking tour of La Paz city
- With new discovery, Bolivia has most dinosaur footprints on earth
- Bolivian food 101: 23 exotic fruits that you must try in Santa Cruz!
- Watch a great video of La Paz, 1943. They had trams!
- We are loosing our CERRO RICO, and the world knows about this disgrace!
- A catalog registers 15,345 plant species in Bolivia: among the top 12 countries in the world with greater wealth of plants
- Bolivian Catholics live in family and faith the Passion of Christ
- Bolivian cuisine 101: Seven traditional dishes for Easter
- Bolivian cuisine 101: Majadito recipe, ideal for rainy days
- Bolivian cuisine 101: Locro de gallina [hen soup]
- Bolivia ranks first in wetlands worldwide!
- A great video to watch the Oruro Carnival, come and enjoy!
- Bolivian Christmas carol tradition
- Santa Cruz has 150 archaeological sites
- Carnival 101: Oruro, Bolivia!
- Found: A circular pyramid in Bolivia’s Amazon
- Totora, Bolivia’s architectural gem
- Bolivia is not taking the right approach to protect Cerro Rico
- Ice age fossils found in Chuquisaca!
- Learn about the second highest mountain in this hemisphere: SAJAMA
- Heritage 101: At least 10 of Bolivia’s cultural heritage sites are at risk
- Heritage 101: Unesco declares as World Heritage the Inca Trail
- Bolivian folcklore 101: Collita performed by Wara was composed by Fernando Roman Saavedra
- Bolivia’s San Calixto Observatory for the last 100 years!
- Bolivian folklore 101: Caporales dance, how it was created! – Jorge and Carlos Estrada Pacheco
- Sampaya stopped at the time of the Inca
- Sound Archives preserve the musical history of Bolivia
- Ecology 101: Bolivia’s incredible biodiversity – Madidi
- Tambo Quirquincho, Bolivian architectonic treasure
- In Potosi: Cayara Hotel, 400 years of history
- From Bolivia with Love: HAPPY EASTER
- World’s Deadliest Road – La Paz – Yungas road
- International Festival of Renaissance and Baroque Music, American Missions of Chiquitos
- Bolivian Father’s Day – Courtesy of Cultureness’s Blog
- Calamarca Angels – Catholic Temple, paintings
- San Calixto Chappel – architecture, paintings
- Alasitas
- Wise King’s Day – Christmas
- Iskanwaya
- Christmas – picana
- Museums – La Paz
- Chiquitos – Santa Cruz
- Uturuncu – rapid growing volcano
- Curahuara de Carangas, Oruro – Catholic Temple, mural
- Environment – ecoregions
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