Snow falls in west of Bolivia in same week as wildfires in scorched east

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Bolivia’s western highlands have been hit by a wave of snow, days after firefighters’ battled forest blazes in the Santa Cruz department of eastern Bolivia. Street vendors in western cities such as El Alto and La Paz hope the snow will help grow vegetation and bring down soaring food prices. On the eastern side, thousands of hectares of grassland have been destroyed by fires caused by a heatwave

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In This Story: Bolivia

Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz.

Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon Basin.

The country’s population, estimated at 11 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Mestizos, Europeans, Asians and Africans. Spanish is the official and predominant language, although 36 indigenous languages also have official status, of which the most commonly spoken are Guarani, Aymara and Quechua languages.

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