1. Name:___________________ Period: ____ Date:_____
Use www.cia.gov, World Factbook as your primary source.
*Signifies the information is not on the CIA site and must be
found on the internet somewhere else. Use your research
skills.
Instructions: Using a presentation format chosen in
conjunction with your Technology class, you are expected to
include the following information. Your goal is to create an
informative presentation that takes a maximum of ten
minutes to present. Appropriate grouping of information,
graphs and/or graphics, pictures that compliment your data
are encouraged. Additionally, you are to include 20
photographs of your country. You are to provide a wide
sampling of pictures, representing urban and rural settings,
foods, people, traditional costumes, money, the country’s
leaders, recreation, as examples.
Country: Boliva
Capital: Sucre
Location:
Country Flag
*Flag History The Bolivian flag was adopted on Oct. 31, 1851. Different
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variations of this flag were used in Bolivia since it gained
3. Map (regional)
Area of country total: 1,098,581 sq km
country comparison to the world: 28
Land boundaries total: 6,940 km
border countries: Argentina 832 km, Brazil 3,423 km,
Chile 860 km, Paraguay 750 km, Peru 1,075 km
Coastline/km 0 km (landlocked)
Climate varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and
semiarid
Terrain rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau
(Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin
Elevation extremes lowest point: Rio Paraguay 90 m
highest point: Nevado Sajama 6,542 m
4. Natural resources tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony,
silver, iron, lead, gold, timber, hydropower
Land use arable land: 2.78%
permanent crops: 0.19%
other: 97.03% (2005)
Natural hazards volcanic activity in Andes Mountains on the border
with Chile; historically active volcanoes in this region
are Irruputuncu (elev. 5,163 m), which last erupted in
1995 and Olca-Paruma
Environment- the clearing of land for agricultural purposes and the
current issues international demand for tropical timber are
contributing to deforestation; soil erosion from
overgrazing and poor cultivation methods (including
slash-and-burn agriculture); desertification; loss of
biodiversity; industrial pollution of water supplies used
for drinking and irrigation
Geography-Note landlocked; shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's
highest navigable lake (elevation 3,805 m), with Peru
Ethnic Groups Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian
ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15%
Languages Spanish (official) 60.7%, Quechua (official) 21.2%,
Aymara (official) 14.6%, foreign languages 2.4%,
other 1.2% (2001 census)
Religions Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical
Methodist) 5%
Population and 10,290,003 (July 2012 est.)
comparison country comparison to the world: 83
Population Growth 1.664% (2012 est.)
Rate
5. country comparison to the world: 72
Birth Rate/1000 24.24 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 66
Death Rate/1000 6.76 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 141
Maternal Mortality 180 deaths/100,000 live births (2008)
Rate country comparison to the world: 59
Infant Mortality total: 40.94 deaths/1,000 live births
Rate country comparison to the world: 58
male: 44.68 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 37.02 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)
Life expectancy at total population: 67.9 years
birth country comparison to the world: 158
Physicians’ density 1.22 physicians/1,000 population (2001)
Literacy definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 86.7%
Government type republic; note - the new constitution defines Bolivia as
a "Social Unitarian State"
Suffrage (voting 18 years of age, universal and compulsory
rights)
GDP (ppp) $54.36 billion (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 93
6. GDP per capita $5,000 (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 156
Population below 51.3%
poverty line
Agriculture soybeans, coffee, coca, cotton, corn, sugarcane, rice,
products potatoes; Brazil nuts; timber
Industries mining, tourism, and manufacturing.
Export natural gas, soybeans and soy products, crude
commodities petroleum, zinc ore, tin
Import $8.14 billion (2012 est.)
commodities country comparison to the world: 107
Exchange rate to bolivianos (BOB) per US dollar -
$US (2012) 6.96 (2012 est.)
6.9875 (2011 est.)
7.0167 (2010 est.)
7.07 (2009)
7.253 (2008)
Internet users 1.103 million (2009)
country comparison to the world: 95
*Major rivers Length: 1,181 miles (1,900 km)
Discharge: 411.4 ft³/s (11.65 m³/s)
*Major Mountain Bolivian Andes
Ranges Elevation: 22,841' (6,962 m)
7. Area: 1,301,000 sq miles (3,371,000 km²)
*Distance from Miami United States to La Paz Bolivia is 3012 miles or
Miami (capital) 4846.31 Kilometers
*Popular Sport(s) Soccer
*Current Event University in Bolivia has completed a study of 400
summarized in glaciers in the country and determined that they have
your own words retreated by 43% because of climate change since
(dated within 1
1980.
year of this report).
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