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Name: Chuquisaca
Capital: Sucre
Area: 51.524 km2
Population: 288.299
Language: Spanish (official), Quechua (official)

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Description: City located in the south of Bolivia, constitutional capital of the nation and of the department of Chuquisaca. It is located in the Andean Highland, to 2.835 m of altitude and the southeast of The Peace that it constitutes the government's headquarters. The traditional economy of the city is based on the mining (silver and copper) and the agriculture (cereals, fruit-bearing, potatoes and vegetables). Up to 1899 the capital of the country that moved to The Peace after the victory of the federalists in the conflict of 1898, was although Sucre conserved the condition of artificial capital when harboring the headquarters of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice. The loss of the administrative functions supposed a control to the development of the city. From half-filled of the XX century, it has experienced an industrialization process, centered in the agricultural subsectors, metallurgist and of the textile one and footwear. It has refineries of petroleum, cement factories, copper foundries and works of tobacco. It also carries out an important commercial and cultural function, since in the city is the noted more big, Real and Papal University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca that, created in 1624, one of the oldest institutions of superior education in America of the South constitutes.

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