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Confiamos En La Secretaría General Para Impulsar Los Objetivos EstableCidos EN El Convenio De Santa Cruz De La Sierra Encaminados a Fortalecher La Cooperación Iberoamericana, La Cohesión Interna Ya La Proyección Internacional De La Comunidad Iberoamericana de Naciones.

We are confident that the General Secretariat will contribute to the achievement of goals embodied in adopted in Santa Cruz de la Sierra Agreement aimed at strengthening Ibero-American cooperation, mutual solidarity and dissemination of information at the international level about the Ibero-American Community of Nations.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra Agreement, aimed at strengthening Ibero-American cooperation, mutual solidarity and dissemination of information at the international level about the Ibero-American Community of Nations. "\u003e

Consulta Latinoamericana Y Sudamericana Sobre Las Poblaciones Indígenas, Santa Cruz De La Sierra SEPTIEMBRE DE 1994, BOLIVIA)

Latin and South American consultation on indigenous issues, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (September 1994, Bolivia).

Santa Cruz de la Sierra (September 1994, Bolivia). "\u003e

Manifiestan Su Satisfacción Por La Celebración De La Cumbre de Las Américas Sobre Desarrollo Sostenible, Que Se Llevará a Cabo En Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia, Entre EL 6 Y 8 de diciembre de 1996.

The presidents are noted with satisfaction that on December 6-8, 1996 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia, the Inter-American meeting at the highest level on sustainable development will be held.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, the Inter-American meeting at the highest level on sustainable development will be held. "\u003e

Expresamos Nuestra Gratitud Al Presidente Carlos D. Mesa Y Al Pueblo de Bolivia Por La Hospitalidad y Atenciones Recibidas Durante La Xiii Cumbre Iberoamericana de Santa Cruz De La Sierra.

We express my appreciation to the President of Carlos Mesa and the people of Bolivia for hospitality and attention rendered to us during the top of the thirteenth Ibero-American meeting at the highest level in Santa Cruz de la Sierra .

Santa Cruz de la Sierra. "\u003e

Además, La Cepal Y El Fnuap Han Accordado Hacer Una Exposición Conjunta En La Reunión Iberoamericana Que Se Celebráná, Como Preparación De La Segunda Asamblea Mundial Sobre El Envejecimiento Santa Cruz De La Sierra EN NOVIEMBRE DE 2001.

In addition, ECLAC and UNFPA agreed to organize a joint presentation at the Ibero-American meeting on the preparations for the Second World Assembly on the problems of aging, which will be held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia, in November 2001.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in November 2001. "\u003e

Asimismo, En. Santa Cruz De La Sierra (Bolivia) Se Celebró En Mayo Un Curso De Capacitación Organizado Por El Tribunal de Defensa de La Competencia De España, La Agencia Española De Cooperaación Internacional Y El Sistema Economico Latinoamericano (Sela).

Tengo El Honor de Transmitirle Adjunto A La Presente, El Texto de la Declaración de Santa Cruz De La Sierra APROBADO EN LA XIII CUMBRE IBEROAMICANA DE JEFES DE ESTADO Y DI GOBIERNO, CELEBRADA LOS DíAS 14 Y 15 de Noviembre de 2003.

I have the honor to expect a real text of the Declaration Santa Cruz de la Sierra , adopted at the Thirteenth Ibero-American meeting of the heads of state and governments held on 14 and 15 November 2003.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, adopted at the Thirteenth Ibero-American meeting of the heads of state and governments held on 14 and 15 November 2003. "\u003e

El 23 De Enero, El Canciller Ecuatoriano Se Reunió Con El Ministro De Relaciones Exteriores Del Perú EN Santa Cruz De La Sierra Y Le Manifestó La Necesidad Urgente De Alcanzar Una Solución Pacífica A La Situación.

January 23 B. Santa Cruz de la Sierra Ecuadorian Foreign Minister met with Foreign Minister Peru and pointed him to the urgent need to achieve a peaceful settlement of the situation.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra Ecuadorian Foreign Minister met with Foreign Minister Peru and pointed him to the urgent need to achieve a peaceful settlement situation. "\u003e

En Relación con Las Mesas Redondas Que Se Celebran Conjuntamente Con El Presente Período de Seesiones, Subraya Que La Pobreza ES Uno de Los Principles Problemas de América Latina, Como Se Reconoció EN La 13ª Cumbre Iberoamericana, Celebrada Recientemente En Santa Cruz De La Sierra.

As for the round-table meetings, which are held in parallel with the current session, she would like to emphasize that one of the main problems in Latin America is poverty, and this was officially spoken at the thirteenth IB-RO-American meeting at the highest level, consisting of six Recently B. Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. "\u003e

EN Sus Anteriores Períodos de Seesiones, El Foro Fue Informado Sobre La Serie De Seminarios Que Había Organizado La Oficina Sobre La Cuestión EN Santa Cruz De La Sierra EN NOVIEMBRE DE 2006 Y EN QUITO EN OCTUBRE DE 2007.

In previous sessions, the forum participants were informed about the series of seminars on this issue organized by the Office in Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia, in November 2006 and in Quito in October 2007.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in November 2006 and in Quito in October 2007. "\u003e

EN NOVIEMBRE DE 2005, El Centro También Llegó a Un ACUERDO CON LA AGENCIA ESPAñOLA DE COOPERAACIO INTERNACIONAL PARA ORGANIZAR ACTIVIDADES CONJUNTAS EN TRES De Los Centros De Capacitación de la Agencia Situados en Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Cartagena Y La Antigua.

In addition, in November 2005, the Center concluded an agreement with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation on the organization of joint events in three educational centers of the agency located in Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia; Cartagena, Colombia; And Antigua, Guatemala.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; Cartagena, Colombia; and Antigua, Guatemala. "\u003e

La Determinación de Consolidar Los ACUERDOS ADOPTADOS EN LA CUMBRE DE LAS AMÉRICAS SOBRE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE DE Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Y Fortalecher, Para Tal Fin, Los Mecanismos Existentes Dentro de la Organización;

The determination to take measures to strengthen agreements adopted at the summit of the countries of the American continent on sustainable development in Santa Cruz de la Sierra , and strengthening for this purpose internal mechanisms of the organization;

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and strengthening with this purpose internal mechanisms of the organization; "\u003e

Tóásó Fue Conducido Luego De Su Detención, Conjuntamente Con Mario Tadic, Doble Nacional Boliviano-Croata, A Dependencias Policiales De La Ciudad de Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Donde Se Le Mantuvo Incomunicado Durante Dos Días.

After the arrest, Mr. Tasasho, together with Mario Tadic, a citizen of Bolivia and Croatia, was taken to the city service police insulator Santa Cruz de la Sierra where it was held for two days without a connection with the outside world.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, where it was held for two days without a connection with the outside world. "\u003e

1. This is a very young city.

For 500 years of colonial history, the country's wealth focuses mainly in La Paz, Sucre and Potosi. When in 1700 Potosi was the most densely populated city of South and North America, only 3,500 inhabitants lived in Santa Cruz.
If you had the opportunity to look at Santa Cruz in the 1960s or 70s - you would see a completely different city. Since the end of the 20th century, Santa Cruz has grown significantly due to the extraction of oil and natural gas in the vicinity. Foreigners who came to the development and production of gas and oil changed this city beyond recognition. He became the economic heart of the country.

2. The other Bolivia starts here

Santa Cruz - a large transport node. It has the largest and loaded airport in Bolivia and a large bus terminal. From here you can get on a single bus to Paraguay - if you plan to visit this country.

This starting point for those who want to explore hidden, not known to most tourists places. Bolivia is not only Salar de Uuest, Titicaca and High Mountains - who are also certainly worth a visit.

In the Santa Cruz region you will find ...

• Three large national parks located in the east and west of the city - Amazonian paradise Noel Kempff Mercado, Kaa Lya National Park, where you can see Jaguars and Amboro National Park, where jaguars and hundreds of species of exotic birds live.
• SAMAIPATA, Nice village, where you can relax and visit the archaeological object, brought by UNESCO - Ruins Fuerte de Samaipat.
• Jesuit Missions Chiquitos (UNESCO)

  and much more ... Ready to go to this journey?

3. Incas could not capture this land

Before the arrival of the Spaniards between the East Bolivian East Bolivian Empire and nomadic tribes, numerous wars took place. Guarani tribes, Aravak or Chikitanos were real jungle lords and beautiful hunters. The Empire Inca was not able to conquer the natives.

4. These people - a mixture of different cultures

From here, important Jesuit missions towards the tribes Guarani, Chikitanom and Guaraios were sent. The Spaniards used assimilation as one of the tools of colonization, visiting foreigners started families with local residents - so today residents of the Santa Cruz region are the result of this unusual, long-generated mix. Here for a long time, with the arrival of the Spaniards, the local, original culture was destroyed, but was created new, with their own characteristics and traditions.

5. Potosi was silver, Santa Cruz - Tin

Mining was the most important industry in Bolivia. Tin and tires have become an important material after the industrial revolution in Europe. Before the nationalization of tin mines in 1952, only three Bolivian families owned more than 90% of the total wealth of Bolivia. Simon Patigno, the owner of the tin mines, became the tin king and one of the richest people on the planet.

7. Isolation for many years from the rest of the country

The only way to communicate Santa Cruz with the rest of Bolivia for a long time was a horse and mule on which they traveled to the city of Kochabamba. In 1954, Brazil completed the first railway line connecting Brazil from Santa Cruz. Two years later, here held a railway from Argentina. In 1956, the construction of an asphalt road was completed - this road was the first modern road through the Andean Mountains, and finally connected Western Bolivia with East Bolivia.

8. Che Guevara died here

Che Guevara chose Bolivia to distribute socialism from here throughout South America. He and his people moved to the district of Chaco. Che was shot near Quebrada del Yuro, but his, wounded, friends were delivered to La Higuera, still alive. Here, he was again found enemies and killed. Soon his body was delivered to Vallegrande to the medical center of the international press. And immediately after it disappeared without a trace ... Only in 30 years it was found and sent back on his family to Cuba.

There is a tourist route that visits all these small villages associated with the past Che.

9. There is Hard Rock Cafe \u003d)

It was the main reason why I generally began to search on the map this city and became interested in his story. It was the only hard rock cafe in Bolivia (and immediately after my departure from the country opened the second in La Paz).

Center of the Department of Santa Cruz. The name of the city is translated from Spanish as "Holy Cross on the Hill". This city was founded on February 26, 1560 on the shores of the Pear River (220 km east of their current location). But after 30 years, Santa Cruz was transferred to the place where he stands today.

Until the beginning of the XIX century, Santa Cruz flourished, supplying the rest of Bolivia rice, cotton, vegetables and sugar. So it lasted until cheap food from Peru had come to the country. In the twentieth century, this city became a kind of gate to Brazil, through which all trading relations with this country at that time were conducted. This gave a new impetus to the development of Santa Cruz.

The mild climate made this city a major tourist center of the country. Today, Santa Cruz de la Sierra became not only the largest city of Bolivia and all South America. The territory of this city has a food, leather and oil refining industry. Thus, it provides more than 30% of Bolivian GDP.

The State University is located in Santa Cruz, many museums and Catholic cathedrals. Arriving here with family, enjoy walks in national parks, which are listed by UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Climate and weather

The climate of Santa Cruz de la Sierra refers to halftropic. Thanks to the features of the relief here, it is warm weather all year round. At the same time, cold winds from Argentine Pampas can reduce the air temperature in a rather short time. The average daily temperature does not exceed the summer +25 ° C., and in the winter it is +10 ° C.. The sediments in Santa Cruz are rather rare. Basically, their loss accounts for only two months a year - January and February.

Late spring and early autumn are considered the best periods to arrive in this city when the air warms up to comfortable.

Nature

The surroundings of Santa Cruz will impress you with a lot of interesting places. Almost all the territory around this city is magnificent landscapes that are part of several parks. Losas-de Arena de El Palmar, which is known for its beautiful lagows with fresh water is located 16 kilometers from Santa Cruz.

The National Park, which is located 440 km north-east of this city, Noel-Campf-Mercado, is famous for its picturesque waterfalls, as well as a huge variety of fauna and flora. This is the only sight of natural origin that UNESCO has included in the list of World Heritage Site. The park guards five different types of ecosystems - dry forest, jungle, wet forests and savanna. On an area of \u200b\u200b15,000 km 2, more than 4,000 plant species grows, about 600 species of birds and 150 mammalian species dwell.

sights

The main attractions of Santa Cruz de la Sierra are magnificent banks of the river Pir and national parks. The municipal zoo is considered the best zoo in South America, a large number of animals and birds from around the world lives on its territory.

In the city itself, the most remarkable objects are the central square and the cathedral located on it. The Cathedral is a museum in which silver and gold exhibits are collected from Jesuit missions. Many tourists in the cultural program include a visit to the Museum of Natural History, which is a complete collection of fauna exhibits and flora of this region.

Not far from Santa Cruz, there is a small town of Samaipat, in the territory of which in the XVI century, the city of Incans flourished. On its preserved ruins you can see the rock paintings of animals. This city is also included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Some tourists like visiting the village La Hikerin which Ernesto Che Guevara was killed. Now this village has become a kind of museum dedicated to the legendary revolutionary.

Food

Santa Cruz de la Sierra cuisine, as in all Bolivia, is replete with various sauces, which season meat, fish and vegetables are seasoned. Local restaurants are pleased to offer their visitors multiple national dishes, including famous peak-A-Lo Macho and silpacho. The famous Bolivian Vodka Chicha is served to dinner in Santa Cruz.

The cost of dinner in this city is slightly higher than in La Paz, and is about $ 12 per person. Although lunch in a street cafe will cost no more than $ 8.

Accommodation

Hotels in Santa Cruz do not have an official classification, although many hotels that are included in major international hotel companies have cherished "asterisks".

Prices for accommodation in this city are noticeably overestimated. The double room in the middle class hotel is asked to $ 50. True, when settled, you can specify the room and services provided by the hotel. So you can significantly bring down the price.

The most famous hotels in Santa Cruz are Hotel Camino Real, Yotau All Suites Hotel, Urbari Apartment Resort. In addition to comfortable rooms, these hotels offer their customers a first-class vacation in their sports halls, pools and spa. The average cost of accommodation in these hotels is about $ 40.

Entertainment and recreation

Numerous tourist companies in Santa Cruz organize interesting excursions to national parks Ambo. and Noel-Campf-Mercado. On the territory of the parks you can see a large number of representatives of local flora and fauna.

In the city itself, many tourists prefer to visit magnificent museums of the history and culture of Santa Cruz. The cathedral, built during the colonization of the Spaniards, is especially popular. Its magnificent facades and excellent interior decoration allocate this cathedral among such buildings in Bolivia.

A great excursion for the whole family will be a visit to the gallery, where a magnificent collection of butterflies from around the world is collected. The gallery with unique types of orchids will also seem no less impressive.

Purchases

You can make purchases in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in any street shop or shopping tent. Here most people as souvenirs prefer to acquire dishes, souvenirs, various products of folk craftsmen, as well as the famous Mate tea.

The famous Bolivian, knitted, manually, bags, as well as tissue products tailored by local representatives of the Indian tribes, are well bought apart by foreigners.

Transport

Transport in Santa Cruz is represented by two species: automotive and air transport. A bus service in this major city is also developed very well, so that tourists do not arise problems with movement in Santa Cruz. The cost of one trip in urban transport will cost $ 2. When moving around the city you can also use a taxi. Usually, drivers are asked for a trip to $ 4.

Next to Santa Cruz is a major airport that has international status. In addition, the city is associated with flights with other cities of Bolivia. The cost of the flight within the country will cost a passenger at $ 120.

Communication

Mobile communications in Santa Cruz has an extensive coverage area. Mobile operators support international roaming of most major global companies.

The cost of an international urban call will cost approximately $ 1 per minute of conversation.

Internet communications in Santa Cruz develops very intensively. At the same time, almost all hotels and hotels offer customers to use Wi-Fi. And in street cafeteria, you can easily join users of the World Wide Web for only $ 1 (half an hour of use).

Safety

Safety in Santa Cruz de la Sierra is provided at a fairly high level. Danger for foreigners can represent only local crooks and pockets. It is worth it to be extremely attentive in places with a large cluster of people, where thieves can easily be lost in the crowd.

When deciding to travel to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, it is necessary to remember the risk of infection with tropical infections, so before traveling it is best to make all the required preventive vaccinations.

If you decide on an independent trip to Santa Cruz on a rented car, do not forget that the movement in this city is right-sided, but everything is very incomprehensible with the rules here. It seems that in Bolivia, in principle are not familiar with such a concept as the rules of the road, so independently movement here may be a serious threat to health.

Business climate

Santa Cruz as the largest city of Bolivia is very popular with the organizers of various thematic exhibitions and conferences. At least once a year is going to several thousand professionals in a particular industry.

The property

Most foreigners wishing to acquire housing in Bolivia are deciding to stop their choice on buying an apartment or a house in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. And the price variation is quite large here. In the most prestigious area of \u200b\u200bthe city, where, by the way, and purchased by the housing by foreigners, the cost of the average apartment in 100 m2 will cost about $ 90,000. And a beautiful three-bedroom mansion, two bathrooms and a plot of about 800 m 2, in addition, it will cost only $ 60,000 if it is not in the most prosperous area of \u200b\u200bthe city.

Problems when making a purchase by foreign citizens in Bolivia does not arise. All necessary documents are prepared approximately within a few weeks. By the way, buying property in Bolivia can be the first step to obtain a residence permit in this country.

When buying in local food stores, namely fruits and vegetables, rinse them thoroughly under water. It is best if it is mineral, bottled. Local tap water is not recommended to use even when cleaning the teeth and wash faces.

It is not necessary without permission to photograph the local population, especially women. They do not really like it. Moreover, it may be regarded as hooliganism - the local police have the right to delay you.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra is a city in the southeastern part of Bolivia is located on the right bank of the Piray River, which is directed to the north, 50 km east of the marriages of the Andes. Initially, it was built along the radial-ring plan. Although the area of \u200b\u200bthe city in its modern form is very large, there are no skyscrapers in it, and even just high-rise buildings are a bit: due to sandy movable soils and seismic hazards.

History of the city

The history of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra is similar to the taste of an adventurous novel.

The State of Bolivia originated in 1825, and before that, the territory belonging to him was called (from 1538, when the first Spanish conquistadors arrived here) Chakras Province, later - the top Peru. In 1558, Konkistador Newflo Chavez, having heard that the authorities of the city were conceived by the expedition to the part of the Upper Peru, where there were no Spanish outposts, played ahead, convincing the vice-king of Peru, which will build a city in these places, the capital of the new Mohas province in these places . The conversation took place on February 15, 1560, this day is sometimes considered the date of the founding of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. But it is incorrect: only on February 26, 1561, he fulfilled his plan to get to the place of Chavez, he laid his plan, the city laid, calling him the same way as the town was called, from where he was coming, in the province of Extremadura in Spain. Translated this name means the "Holy Cross of Foreigns". The first settlers here were the Spaniards of Chávez, Germans, Flemish, Italians and Portuguese, who serve the Spanish crown, as well as the Indians Guarani, who came from the territory of the current Paraguay. However, local Guarani and other aborigines were not so loyal to the aliens: the attacks on the settlement followed one after another. In 1568, Chavez was killed by Indians. The new governor Lorenzo Suarez de Figiloa decided to move the city to the West, and on September 13, 1590, moving to the Guapai-Impero river bank took place, although the part of the white inhabitants of the town did not leave him. In a new place, the city was renamed San Lorenzo de la Frontera. But there, the attacks of the Indians became even more frequent, and the city once again moved on May 21, 1595, to the place where the Piray River is now. The colonial authorities persuaded the inhabitants of the first settlement to move to San Lorenzo, and they agreed to it. In 1622, its initial name was returned to the city. From the settlement laid by Chavez, he will be 220 km.

Jesuits managed to create a network of their missions in the provinces of Mohas and Chikitas, which in the end led to greater success in the harm of Indian tribes than all military operations. Citizens of the city of Santa Cruz, as it is called briefly, were freed from all taxes. Until the XVIII century. Santa Cruz was one large market, there were trade, cotton, sugar, rice, while in the upper Peru did not come more affordable in prices of food from Peru. But in 1813, anti-libists took the city from the imperial power, among which the brightest figure was Ignacio Versane, and they managed it. But in 1816, in battle at El Paris, Francisco Aguer Varnes was killed, and the city became Spanish again.

Manuel Aramburu, the last Spanish governor of the city, was overthrown in February 1825 by Bolivian fighters for independence. Further, until the middle of the XX century, Santa Cruz was a typical provincial town with a small population. The role of a strategically important city returned to him in the middle of the 20th century with the construction of roads to other parts of the country and in Brazil and the beginning of the development of oil fields, which gave a new impetus for the development of the Bolivian economy, including agriculture, and the city took the key position in this new situation. . Today, Santa Cruz de la Sierra provides Bolivia about 37% of GDP and receives about 50% of foreign investment in the state economy. In the list of the fastest growing cities in the world, the Bolivian Santa Cruz at the 14th place, among the people moving here a lot of expathers experts. The city changes, but retains its atmosphere. The sights of Santa Cruz de la Sierra are mainly located in its borders, but around him.

general information

City in Bolivia, Administrative Center for the Department of Santa Cruz and his province Andrei Ibanez.

Administrative-territorial division: 22 district.

Languages: Spanish, Guarani and other Indian adverbs.

Ethnic composition: Indians - 47% (the most numerous group - Guarani), metises - 30%, white - 23%.

Religion: Christianity: Catholicism - 95%, Protestantism (Evangelical Methodists) - 5%. Most of the Indians parallel to their traditional rites.

Currency unit: Boliviano.
The largest river: pirate.

The most important airport: Viru-Viru (international).

Numbers

Area: 325.6 km 2, agglomeration - 535 km 2.
Population: 1,765,926 people. (2010), agglomeration - 2 102 998 people. (2010).

Population density: 5423.6 people / km 2, agglomeration - 3930.8 people / km 2.

Medium height above sea level: 416 m.

Climate and weather

Subscance, soft.

The average temperature of January: + 28 ° С.

The average temperature of July: + 20 ° C.
The average annual amount of precipitation: 910 mm.

The sediments fall mainly in January-February.

Economy

Financial, business, Transport Center Bolivia.

Industry: oil refinery, food, leather.
Services: Financial, Transport and Business Services, Trade, Tourism.

sights

■ Square September 24: around it - the Cathedral, the Basilica of Menoraor de San Lorenzo (originally Spanish Baroque. 1605; Perestroika 1770 and 1838. Present an eclectic appearance), Casa de la Culture (Palace of Culture), Raul- Ripier, Town Hall, other administrative buildings.
■ Museums: National Museum of History, National and Regional Museum, as well as Museums: Sacred Art (in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo), Independence, Contemporary Art, Ethnophollo (Art of Indians Guarani, Mahanyos, Aioreos, Chikitanos), History of the Indian Guarani.
■ Municipal Zoo, Municipal Park, Bereg River Pirate.
■ Nearby: Jesuit missions of the XVII-XVIII centuries. San Ramon, San Javier, San Miguel, San Ignacio de Velasco, San Rafael, Concepcion, San Jose de Chikitos and Santa Ana, Water Park, Biotic Butterflies (the largest in the world) Guembe and Park Guasil Ivaga, Dunes district and lagoon with fresh water Lomas de Arena de El Palmar (16 km), Ruins of the Incan fortress El Fuerte de Samaipat (120 km) - UNESCO World Heritage Site, National Parcamboro (150 km), Noel-Kepff-Mercado National Park (440 km) - UNESCO World Natural Heritage Object.

Curious facts

The city legend tells about how one poor guy loved the girl from a rich family and standing in front of her house, but his beloved, because of the possible Mesallians, did not release from the house. In those days, there were wooden poles that prevent hard-loaded carts before each house. Then the young man cut a human face on the pillar. Pole stood until 1947. And the girl still escaped from under the castle. And lived in love for a long time and happily.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Span. Santa Cruz de La Sierra) is the largest city in Bolivia and the administrative center of the same name. Located in the east of the country. More famous in the world as Santa Cruz. In terms of population, this city is much ahead of the official capital of Bolivia, the city of Sucre and the actual capital of La Paz.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra was founded on February 26, 1561 by Captain Nuffle de Chavez, who gave the new name here to the settlement here, which means "Holy Cross on the Hill". So called his hometown in Extremadura, Spain. As in other cities conquered or founded by them, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra Spaniards put a lot of effort to turn the Indian tribes in the Christian Catholic faith inhabited. Today in the city there is a large number of ancestors of those who born from marriages of conquerors with the local population.

Initially, the Santa Cruz de la Sierra settlement was 220 km east of his modern location. After protracted and sharp conflicts with the indigenous population, the city was first moved to another place, closer to the shores of Rio Grande, and then at the current place, on the banks of the Pirari River in 1592.

For several centuries, the city played the role of the Jesuit Center and was the place of the organization of Christian missions in South America. A serious role in the life of Bolivia and resources for development, the city was obtained only at the beginning of the 20th century, when in Bolivia after unsuccessful wars with neighbors understood that it was necessary to pay attention to the development of the eastern part of the country. As a result, in the middle of 50nd to an isolated previously, the city conducted a way to Cochabamba, and then from Santa Cruz held the railway to Brazil. Thus, the economic and demographic growth of the city was stimulated. Improving roads and ways to communicate, the construction of the airport, as well as the continuous influx of emigrants, turned the city into one of the most industrialized and important shopping centers in the country during the second half of the twentieth century.

Today, Santa Cruz is not only the most densely populated city in Bolivia, but also the richest department of the country producing over 30% of national GDP. It creates an oil refinery, dupupus and leather industry.

The climate in which the city is located, should be attributed to halftopic. Here all year round is warm weather, however, cold winds called Surazos, which can significantly reduce the temperature in a short time. The greatest precipitation falls into Santa Cruz in January and February.

Among the attractions of this Bolivian city, we will highlight the following: one of the best zoos in South America, the colorful area of \u200b\u200bPlaza-24 de septem and the Cathedral located on it, the Museum of the Cathedral, where the unique exhibits of Jesuit missions, the Museum of Natural History, and the like are collected. . A lot of interesting places is located around the city.