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SUCRE, or CHUQUISACA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 8 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUCRE, or See also:CHUQUISACA  , a See also:city of See also:Bolivia, See also:capital of the See also:department of See also:Chuquisaca and nominal capital of the See also:republic, 46 m . N.E. of See also:Potosi in 19° 2' 45" S., 65° 17' W . Pop . (1900), 20,967; (1906, estimate), 23,416, of whom many are See also:Indians and cholos . The city is in an elevated valley opening southward on the narrow See also:ravine through which flows the Cachimayo, the See also:principal See also:northern tributary of the Pilcomayo . Its See also:elevation, 8839 ft., gives it an exceptionally agreeable See also:climate . There are fertile valleys in the vicinity which provide the city's markets with See also:fruit and vegetables, while the vineyards of See also:Camargo (formerly known as Cinti), in the See also:southern See also:part of the department, See also:supply See also:wine and See also:spirits of excellent quality . The city is laid out regularly, with broad streets, a large central plaza and a public See also:garden, or See also:promenade, called the prado . Among its builcliags are the See also:cathedral, dating from 1553 and once noted for its See also:wealth; the See also:president's See also:palace and halls of See also:congress, which are no longer occupied as such by the See also:national See also:government; the cabildo, or See also:town-See also:hall; a See also:mint dating from 1572; the courts of See also:justice, and the university of See also:San See also:Xavier, founded in 1624, with faculties of See also:law, See also:medicine and See also:theology . There is a See also:pretty See also:chapel called the " Rotunda," erected in 1852 at the See also:lower end of the prado by President Belzfi, on the spot where an See also:attempt had been made to assassinate him . See also:Sucre is the seat of the See also:archbishop of La See also:Plata and Charcas, the See also:primate of Bolivia . It is not a commercial town, and its only See also:note-worthy manufacture is the " See also:clay dumplings " which are eaten with potatoes by the inhabitants of the Bolivian uplands .

Although the capital of Bolivia, Sucre is one of its most isolated towns because of the difficult See also:

character of the roads leading to it . It is reached from the Pacific by way of Challapata, a station on the See also:Antofagasta & See also:Oruro railway . The See also:Spanish town, according to Velasco, was founded in 1538 by See also:Captain Pedro Angules on the site of an See also:Indian See also:village called Chuquisaca, or Chuquichaca (See also:golden See also:bridge), and was called Charcas and See also:Ciudad de la Plata by the Spaniards, though the natives clung to the See also:original Indian name . It became the capital of the See also:province of Charcas, of the comarca of Chuquisaca, and of the bishopric of La Plata and Charcas, and in See also:time it became the favourite See also:residence and See also:health resort of the See also:rich mine-owners of Potosi . The bishopric See also:dates from 1552 and the archbishopric from 1609 . In the latter See also:year was created the Real Audiencia de la Plata y Charcas, a royal See also:court of justice having See also:jurisdiction over Upper See also:Peru and the La Plata provinces of that time . Sucre was the first city of Spanish See also:South See also:America to revolt against Spanish See also:rule—on the 25th of May 1809 . In 1840 the name Sucre was adopted in See also:honour of the patriot See also:commander who won the last decisive See also:battle of the See also:war, and then became the first president of Bolivia . The city has suffered much from See also:partisan strife, and the removal of the government to La Paz greatly diminished its importance .

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