{"id":16613,"date":"2023-11-03T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T05:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16613"},"modified":"2025-04-04T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:39:50","slug":"bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Bolivia<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bolivia,\u00a0officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is\u00a0a landlocked country located in\u00a0western-central South America.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0named after\u00a0independence fighter Simon Bolivar.<\/li>\n<li>The country is\u00a0located in the rugged\u00a0Andes Mountain,\u00a0with a highland plateau and lowland plains in the Amazon basin.<\/li>\n<li>One-third of the country\u00a0is within the Andean mountain range.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Bordering Countries: It borders the countries of\u00a0Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and\u00a0Peru.<\/li>\n<li>Capital: The\u00a0constitutional capital is Sucre, while the\u00a0seat of government and executive capital\u00a0is La Paz.<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia\u00a0shares control of Lago Titicaca,\u00a0the world\u2019s highest lake navigable to large vessels, at 12,500 feet above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>History:\n<ul>\n<li>During the\u00a015th and 16th centuries, an\u00a0ancient civilization called\u00a0the Inca reigned over the region.<\/li>\n<li>In 1538, Spanish conquistadors (or \u2018conquerors\u2019) arrived from Europe and\u00a0gained control\u00a0of the territory.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0broke away from Spanish rule in 1825.<\/li>\n<li>Much of its\u00a0subsequent history has\u00a0consisted of a series of coups and countercoups, with the last coup occurring in 1978.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Democratic civilian rule was\u00a0established in 1982.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Government:\n<ul>\n<li>The government system\u00a0is a republic; the new constitution defines Bolivia as a\u00a0\u201cSocial Unitarian State.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0chief of state and\u00a0head of government is the president.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Currency: Bolivian boliviano<\/li>\n<li>Official Language: It has\u00a037 official languages, including Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia has a\u00a0mixed economic system that includes a variety of\u00a0private freedoms combined with centralized economic planning and government regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Republic?<\/h3>\n<p>A republic is a form of government where the head of state is not a monarch or a dictator but a representative of the people, who is usually elected. The people have the power to control the country\u2019s decisions instead of the elite doing so arbitrarily.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/bolivia-severs-ties-with-israel-others-recall-envoys-over-gaza-9009572\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bolivia severs ties with Israel, others recall envoys over Gaza<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}