You will encounter Bolivia as a country in which numerous different cultures live together. This richness makes Bolivia the most colorful country in Latin America. Beyond any doubt, the most famous assembly of this cultures is La Paz . This great city has appr. 950.000 inhabitants excluding the citizens of the close city El Alto , which was constituted in 1986 as a part of the La Paz region.
El Alto has appr.
770.000 citizens, but the overwhelming majority works in La Paz . Constantly, the land migration to La Paz is on a high level and leads so to the steady growth of the urban population. Cause for the urban attraction is the better standard of living. At the beginning of the twentieth century La Paz could count only on 80.000 citizens, which live on the few flat spots between rivers and cracks. In the middle of the century La Paz increased up to 320.000 inhabitants.