World’s Loftiest Capital
La Paz, Bolivia, -where the people have betsn demonstrating against Paraguay, is! the loftiest capital in the world, for it stands on a mountain top 12,470 feet! above sea level. This is 2000 feet higher; than Quito, in Ecuador, and 5000 'feet; higher than Mexico City. Its nearest rival for height is the far-; distant Lhasa, in Tibet, which stands at; an altitude of 11,830 feet. The mean temperature of La Paz is 50: degrees Fahrenheit, but it is never really warm there except in the sunshine, and; the cold nights are unrelieved by fireside; comforts, for the simple reason that thej folk have nothing to burn, there being; neither coal nor trees in the desolate mountainous regions around the city, £ { -
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17661, 12 August 1929, Page 7
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124World’s Loftiest Capital Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17661, 12 August 1929, Page 7
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