Talk:La Paz

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I do not see this article anywhere on the nominations page. This article should be re-named La Paz, Bolivia since there are many other cities and towns with the same name. Access should be via the disambiguation page for La Paz. Tmangray 17:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree and also I can not find any thing about restaurants or any info on them what so ever. I think this website should at least give some form of valuable information on every topic basing it on La Paz, Bolivia. {sigh} I have a 250 project due in a couple of days and I do not have time to go to Barnes & Nobel to find the info that i need, so do some of us a favor and get some info on Restaurants! Thank you very much I appreciate it p.s- what does disambiguation mean?

I see no reason to name the article La Paz, Bolivia; there are other places called La Paz, but there are also many places called Paris. La Paz is the highest capital in the world, has a large population, and a completely unique urban topography. Dawson 02:17, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Dawson It most definitely should be renamed, as there is also a La Paz, Baja California Sur. The mexican state's capital. Oddly enough, THAT ONE is named La Paz, Baja California Sur. 66.119.27.235 16:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I disagree. There's a Paris in Texas, but the article about Paris in France is just called "Paris". Similarly, there are at least two places called New York in England. There's a London and a Sydney in Ontario, but does that mean that the article entitled "London" should be changed to "London, United Kingdom" and "Sydney" to "Sydney, Australia"? No — and similarly, when people around the world talk about "La Paz" they are generally assumed to be talking about La Paz in Bolivia: in the absence of local reasons to assume anything else, if they mean another La Paz, they say so. Ondewelle, 19 May 2008


 * I agree, it should stay as-is. Benwing (talk) 03:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Skyline of La Paz
The Illimani is the foremost feature of the skyline of La Paz. The skyline picture of San Jorge showing the buildings needs to include it in order for it to be properly labeled

there are also lots of grammar errors and typos in the article.

216.164.63.182 (talk) 01:08, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

picture by NASA, ok I'm removing that
La Paz ""Areal view by NASA""

- so how do we know it was from NASA. If so, it's irrelevant, there are thousands of areal vies of cities. i'm taking that off. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 13:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

I'm sure the Bolivian Air Force did it. Oh wait, the US doesnt allow Bolivia to buy planes for its airforce... its probably NASA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.89.94.90 (talk) 16:36, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Why isn't the altitude of this city mentioned?
Please insert the altitude and more on the climate, as its very interesting for many. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.173.139 (talk) 22:57, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Reply to that upset guy.
Ok, I'll try to do that restaurant thing for all of you since I live here even though I never though wikipedia was a pub locator. The thing you say about disambiguation... ok, the other places with the same name are mostly small towns in comparison; plus this is the capital of an entire contry unlike the other places. enough said. If you are lazy enough to do this your self, it's necesary for you to shut your pie hole. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 13:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Ok, i'm doing this my self
sorry but this article is incomplete, unaccurate and really... bad. so i will do the entire article my self like I did with the spansh version. I live here, I was born here and now I will re make this because i think it was written by a tourist, not by someone that knows this place good enough. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 14:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Satellite view
Wow. In the purported "NASA satellital view", La Paz is so small as to be invisible. Can you find it? A closer view (about 100 times closer) would be more useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xuehxolotl (talk • contribs) 01:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Dubious reason
The statement "The reason for this division is that the lower you go in the city, the more oxygen there is in the air and the milder the weather is" is dubious. The altitude difference between the valley bottom in the city centre and the surrounding hills is hardly enough to notice the difference in oxygen and weather. In fact, the same division between poor and rich is also present in other South American cities where altitude does not play a role. For example, in Rio, the rich like to build their homes on flat level land in the valleys where access is easy, and the poor are pushed to the inaccessible hills where land is not useful for much else. I suspect that this may be the case in La Paz as well. -- P199 (talk) 13:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but people also enjoy milder weather. La Paz is definitively not Rio or Sao Paolo to apply that formula too. The average temperature at night is 0 to 5 degrees celsius. So whoever wrote that, has a point about it. Rich people dont move to El Alto cuz its flat and accessible... if you know what I mean. If not, look up El Alto on google images and you will know what I mean. Its pretty stupid how you try to stereotype everyone... stop being so ignorant! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.89.94.90 (talk) 16:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * At these high altitudes, small differences in height make much more difference than they do at lower altitudes in terms of propensity for altitude-related illnesses. However, I shouldn't have thought that this was a big issue for people living at these atitudes as much as for people who are visiting and so are not acclimatised.Ondewelle, 19 May 2008


 * It could be more complicated than you think. 5 blocks and 200 feet in altitude often causes major temperature differences in San Francisco due to fog and complex topography that influences the strength of prevailing cold winds blowing off the ocean.  La Paz obviously is nowhere near the sea but the topography is very complex.  Also, El Alto is 1,000 feet up, and at 12,000 feet or so, that can make an enormous difference (even for people living there) in altitude sickness.  BTW the issue in Rio is partly that the hills are very steep and there are torrential rains that tend to destroy anything built on a steep hill. Benwing (talk) 03:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I live in La Paz's "lowest" side since I was born and the reason for it to be more attractive is because of the temperatures: it's usually around 3ºC warmer than downtown, and 5ºC than El Alto, nobody cares about the altitude as much.

Airport info is wrong
This page states the airstrip at El Alto is the longest in the world, but according to another Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_runways) it is not even close. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bert37143 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Capital City
The article states "Located at an altitude of 3,660 metres (12,008 ft), it is the world's highest capital city." But the capital of Bolivia is Sucre... Chmehl (talk) 14:31, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Descenso del Cóndor
Why do not insert this sport fact? La Paz holds a crazy downhill ride in MTB: http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/1331578555844/downhill-goes-streetwise-at-descenso-del-condor --TheDRaKKaR (talk) 02:10, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Irrelevant Education Section
One of the latest editions shows a universities list citing a webpage ranking site. The information is irrelevant and seems biased, it should be reverted to its previous state. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.57.117.248 (talk) 06:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

temperature
Who calls 19 C cool? I've changed it to mild because that's what it is in my point of view.--90.202.5.22 (talk) 15:17, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Wrong picture of La Paz
This photo is not a photo of the city of La Paz, this photo is "La Ceja" (eyebrow) El Alto.



I'm taking out. Elaloon (talk) 22:10, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

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Image of La Paz traffic zebras needed
Does anyone have an image of La Paz traffic zebras? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:16, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Never mind. Found one. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:12, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

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This page has apparently been through a pretty low-intensity edit war in the past few months, concerning the Aymara name "Chuqi Yapu", and its inclusion in the lead/infobox. While I am not acquainted with this subject, it seems to me that the name is in common use, but does not necessarily have any official recognition.

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