Ian Harvey for The Vintage News: Five minutes away from the town of Tiquina, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, archaeologists found the remains of an ancient civilization under the waters of the lake. The find was made 10 years ago, by Christophe Delaere, an archaeologist from the Free University of Belgium, by following information…
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From Chiquitania to salar, travel for a different end of the year
Pagina Siete reports: Depending on the destination and the activity, packages of about four days cost between 220 and 3,000 bolivianos per person. From the Chiquitania by train to the beauty of the Salar de Uyuni; from the adventure in the Amazon to the joy in the vineyards of Tarija. There are several options to…
Chincana Ruins
Max Cortesi contributed to Atlas Obscura; Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca. Isla del Sol (Island of the Sun) is a small island in Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca. On the northern side of the island is Chincana, an Incan settlement now in ruins. The Chincana ruins bear testimony to the island’s rich pre-Columbian…
Archaeologists Discover 15th Century Indigenous Tombs in Bolivia
Reuters for VoA: Archeologists show a skull as part of an archeological finding, dated approximately 500 years ago, in Mazo Cruz, near Viacha, Bolivia, Nov. 12, 2018. LA PAZ — A team of archaeologists in Bolivia said they have discovered tombs containing over a hundred bundles of artifacts and human remains dating more than 500 years…
I am Potosino, between a hymn and the Libertarian Efforts – Humberto Iporre Salinas
Alejandra Pau reports for Pagina Siete: The life, work and death of the composer Humberto Iporre Salinas share several coincidences close to the commemoration of November 10th. The potosino composer Humberto Iporre Salinas. Potosí celebrates 208 years of its Gesta Libertaria [Libertarian Deed], whose soil is evoked as a pillar of the Bolivian economy, a…
Torotoro National Park seeks to become a new “Jurassic park”
AFP reports via El Deber: The 3,500 footprints belong, according to the researchers, to eight species of prehistoric animals and would place this Bolivian region of a pleasant temperate climate A dinosaur in the Plaza de Torotoro. Photo BoliviaMia.net A row of steps of sauropods, theropods and ankylosaurs of the Cretaceous period are observed in…
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