Wara Arteaga, Pagina Siete: After a half-year work, the short will be released on February 28 on the Google Meet platform, days later it will be broadcast on YouTube. According to the Andean oral tradition, the largest salt desert in the world was the result of a great love disappointment: the betrayal of the great…
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Why Bolivia Should Be Your Next Wine Destination
Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler: And how you can start drinking Bolivian wine right now. In 2013, Montevideo, Uruguay hosted a blind wine-tasting contest. Tasters sampled tannat wines, made with a grape originating (but not universally beloved) in France, that is now a prized export of Uruguay. The surprise winner: a Bolivian wine. It was Bolivia’s first-ever grand…
Water Security In Bolivia Declines From Glacier Melt
By Olivia Berntsson, theowp.org: Bolivia’s Tuni glacier has shrunk rapidly over the past decade, now putting the nation’s capital city in a critical water shortage. Located in the heart of South America, the landlocked country experiences low rainfall and regular droughts. The 800,000 citizens of La Paz have depended on water from the glaciers of the…
Wanderlust: Lake Titicaca
Felicity Williams, The Yorker: In a world where leaving the house has become a novelty, travelling abroad has become but a distant memory. Yet, the world is still an incredible place to call home, though we cannot see it in the flesh. To help kickstart your post-Covid bucket list, here is everything you should know…
Bolivia’s Tuni glacier is disappearing, and so is the water it supplies
Monica Machicao, Reuters: LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s Tuni glacier is disappearing faster than initially anticipated, according to scientists in the Andean nation, a predicament that will likely make worse water shortages already plaguing the capital La Paz, just 60 km away. Scientists from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), who monitor the Tuni…
The Mysterious Sajama Lines
Heritage Daily: The Sajama Lines is an ancient network of pre-Hispanic linear paths, located in the altiplano, or highlands of western Bolivia near the Nevado Sajama volcano. The web of lines covers an area of 22,525 square kilometres (almost fifteen times larger than the Nazca lines situated over a thousand kilometres away), and ran a combined length…
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