Talk:Bolivia

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CIA World Factbook 2002

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The reference "and Paraguay (the landlocked country - ????)." in the Ports / Waterways section doesn't look too good. Yes, Paraguay is a landlocked country, BUT some sea ships can enter the country (even cross it to to the new port town of Puerto Busch in Bolivia) because the Rio Paraguay and Parana are sufficiently wide and deep. So I'll just erase this comment.

Someone may want to delete the reference to travel to/within Bolivia on LAB airlines. It went out of business in April 2007.

That someone should be you. (WT-en) Jpatokal 00:35, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

Regions

Bolivia currently has competing regional hierarchies: the country's nine departments, and a few geographic ones. We need to pick one, or make one a subset of the other. Even though nine departments would be just within the limit allowed by policy, I think geographical regions would be more useful to the traveler unfamiliar with the country. Then the departments would serve to divide them further into locales. The Bolivia tourism ministry's web site describes the country as three geographic regions, with most of 3 political departments in each:

• Andean Bolivia (includes current Altiplano region)
  • La Paz
  • Oruro
  • Potosí
• Sub-Andean Bolivia
  • Cochabamba
  • Chuquisaca
  • Tarija
• Tropical Lowlands
  • Santa Cruz
  • Beni
  • Pando

(According to what I've read, the Chaco (Bolivia) was mostly lost to Paraguay, and even though there's a proposal to create a department by that name in Bolivia, I don't think the current "Chaco" article would be a useful in the hierarchy.)

Comments? - (WT-en) Todd VerBeek 16:09, 7 June 2007 (EDT)

Looks good to me, no reason we can't just cover the Chaco within the Santa Cruz (department, Bolivia) and Tarija articles. Chapare belongs within the Cochabamba (department) and Yungas in the La Paz (department, Bolivia) I like the thought to break it up by altitude--probably nothing matters more in Bolivia. --(WT-en) Peterfitzgerald ^Talk 17:24, 7 June 2007 (EDT)

The split into 3 looks good to me, although I think "Altiplano" is better than Andean Bolivia and I think that we should try to think of a snappier description for Sub-Andean Bolivia. -- (WT-en) DanielC 20:06, 9 June 2007 (EDT)

Perhaps that's what "Highland Valleys" was intended to refer to? - (WT-en) Todd VerBeek 22:10, 9 June 2007 (EDT)

AM/PM or 24 hr

Just to and make it understood for the future, we should decide what to use regarding times, AM/PM or 24 hr.

I have browsed through various websites and the overwhelming standard seems to be 24 hr. While occasionally they might still put a PM or AM after the time, they continue using the 24 hr format. See here: http://parquecretacicosucre.com/contenido/horario.php?ln=en http://museodeltesoro.com/home.php?tesoro=horario&M5=active http://www.foxacademysucre.com/en_about.shtml http://www.learnspanishsucre.com/contact.php http://www.musef.org.bo/

If no one objects, I would therefore make the 24 hr standard fix for Bolivia.

Cheers Ceever (talk) 12:19, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Go ahead. As an American, I'm used to the AM/PM system, but the 24 hour system is very clear and efficient so it should be probably be used in as many non American articles as possible. --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 03:41, 7 March 2019 (UTC)