A Estrada, town, Pontevedra provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. It lies in a densely populated mountainous area about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Santiago de Compostela. Its industries include lumbering and processing of dairy

John La Farge was an American painter, muralist, and stained-glass designer. After graduating from St. Mary’s College in Maryland, La Farge studied law, but in 1856 he went to Europe to study art. He worked independently, studying briefly in Paris with Thomas Couture and coming under the influence

Oliver La Farge was an American anthropologist, short-story writer, and novelist who acted as a spokesman for Native Americans through his political actions and his fiction. At Harvard University La Farge pursued his interest in American Indian culture, specializing in anthropology and

Oliver La Farge was an American anthropologist, short-story writer, and novelist who acted as a spokesman for Native Americans through his political actions and his fiction. At Harvard University La Farge pursued his interest in American Indian culture, specializing in anthropology and

Giuseppe La Farina was an Italian revolutionary, writer, and leader and historian of the Risorgimento. The son of a Sicilian magistrate and scholar, La Farina received a law degree in 1835 and soon became involved with a secret committee for Italian unity; he was forced into exile after it

Gilbert Motier de La Fayette was a marshal of France during the Hundred Years’ War and noted adviser to King Charles VII. After serving in Italy under Marshal Jean le Meingre Boucicaut in 1409, he became steward of the Bourbonnais. In the wars with England, Jean I, duc de Bourbon, made him

Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette was a French writer whose La Princesse de Clèves is a landmark of French fiction. In Paris during the civil wars of the Fronde, young Mlle de la Vergne was brought into contact with Madame de Sévigné, now famous for her letters. She also met a leading

Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat who fought in the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolution. Later, as a leading advocate for constitutional monarchy, he became one of the most powerful men in France during the first few years of the

Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette was a French writer whose La Princesse de Clèves is a landmark of French fiction. In Paris during the civil wars of the Fronde, young Mlle de la Vergne was brought into contact with Madame de Sévigné, now famous for her letters. She also met a leading

La Ferrassie, paleoanthropological site in the Dordogne region of France where Neanderthal fossils were found in a rock shelter between 1909 and 1921. Though the first report was made in 1934, investigation of the remains was not completed until 1982. The oldest fossils of La Ferrassie are

La Ferrassie, paleoanthropological site in the Dordogne region of France where Neanderthal fossils were found in a rock shelter between 1909 and 1921. Though the first report was made in 1934, investigation of the remains was not completed until 1982. The oldest fossils of La Ferrassie are

La Ferrassie: region of France where Neanderthal fossils were found in a rock shelter between 1909 and 1921. Though the first report was made in 1934, investigation of the remains was not completed until 1982. The oldest fossils of La Ferrassie are estimated to date from about 50,000 years ago and are…

Francis La Flesche was a U.S. ethnologist and champion of the rights of American Indians who wrote a book of general literary interest about his experiences as a student in a mission school in the 1860s. This memoir, The Middle Five (1900, new edition 1963), is rare in providing an account from an

Susette La Flesche was a Native American writer, lecturer, and activist in the cause of Native peoples’ rights. La Flesche’s father was an Omaha chief who was the son of a French trader and an Omaha woman. He sent his children to a Presbyterian mission school to provide them with an

Robert M. La Follette: United States senator: …his most famous achievement, the La Follette Seaman’s Act of 1915, would increase the safety of passengers while it also improved working conditions for sailors. Beginning in 1908, with elaborate documentation during debate on the Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Act, La Follette argued that the nation’s entire economy was dominated by fewer…

The Progressive, American monthly magazine devoted to social and political progressivism. Since its founding in 1909 by Robert La Follette, a pioneer of the Progressive movement in the United States, the publication has promoted peace, civil liberties, social justice, and human rights. The

Robert M. La Follette: Antiwar position of Robert M. La Follette: Philip Fox La Follette (1897–1965) served as governor of Wisconsin in 1931–33 and 1935–39. In his first term he secured enactment of the first comprehensive unemployment compensation act in any U.S. state. He and his brother, Robert, organized a separate Progressive Party in Wisconsin in…

Robert M. La Follette was an American leader of the Progressive movement who, as governor of Wisconsin (1901–06) and U.S. senator (1906–25), was noted for his support of reform legislation. He was the unsuccessful presidential candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action (i.e., the

Robert M. La Follette: Antiwar position of Robert M. La Follette: Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1895–1953), was elected in 1925 to fill his father’s unexpired term in the Senate and was reelected three times thereafter, serving until 1947. He generally supported U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, and he drafted the congressional reorganization bill…

Robert M. La Follette was an American leader of the Progressive movement who, as governor of Wisconsin (1901–06) and U.S. senator (1906–25), was noted for his support of reform legislation. He was the unsuccessful presidential candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action (i.e., the

La Fontaine was a French ballerina and the first woman professional ballet dancer. Before La Fontaine’s debut in 1681 at the Paris Opéra as première danseuse in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s ballet Le Triomphe de l’amour, girls’ roles on the public stage had been taken by young men. Although hampered by

Hippolyte Taine: Early life and career: …and published in 1861 as La Fontaine et ses fables [“La Fontaine and His Fables”]).

Henri La Fontaine was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau (1907–43) who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and established a reputation as an authority

Henri La Fontaine was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau (1907–43) who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and established a reputation as an authority

Jean de La Fontaine was a poet whose Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature. La Fontaine was born in the Champagne region into a bourgeois family. There, in 1647, he married an heiress, Marie Héricart, but they separated in 1658. From 1652 to 1671 he held office as an

Charles de La Fosse was a painter whose decorative historical and allegorical murals, while continuing a variant of the stately French Baroque manner of the 17th century, began to develop a lighter, more brightly coloured style that presaged the Rococo painting of the 18th century. The greatest

Roger de La Fresnaye was a French painter who synthesized lyrical colour with the geometric simplifications of Cubism. From 1903 to 1909 La Fresnaye studied at the Académie Julian, the École des Beaux-Arts, and the Ranson Academy in Paris. In his early work he was influenced by the Symbolist

the Fronde, series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, during the minority of Louis XIV. The Fronde (the name for the “sling” of a children’s game played in the streets of Paris in defiance of civil authorities) was in part an attempt to check the growing power of royal government; its

Chile: Relief: …38° S); the south-central region, La Frontera and the Lake District (38° to 42° S); and the extreme southern region, Sur (42° S to Cape Horn).

Trifid Nebula: …discovered by the French astronomer Legentil de La Galaisière before 1750 and named by the English astronomer Sir John Herschel for the three dark rifts that seem to divide the nebula and join at its centre. Of about the ninth magnitude optically, the Trifid is also a radio source.

David Beckham: …a record-setting deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the United States. In October 2008 Beckham signed to play with Italian football powerhouse AC Milan during the MLS off-season. In 2011 he helped the Galaxy win an MLS Cup title. The Galaxy won a second…

Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de La Galissonnière was a mariner and commandant general of New France. La Galissonnière was the son of a naval lieutenant-general and studied at the College of Beauvais in Paris. He became a midshipman in the French navy in 1710 and, in the following year, made the

Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de La Galissonnière was a mariner and commandant general of New France. La Galissonnière was the son of a naval lieutenant-general and studied at the College of Beauvais in Paris. He became a midshipman in the French navy in 1710 and, in the following year, made the

Théophraste Renaudot: …under Richelieu’s supervision, Renaudot founded La Gazette (later La Gazette de France), a weekly sheet relating government-sanctioned news, which he edited and published until his death. In 1635 he established a free dispensary and two years later added France’s first pawnbroking shops to the bureau’s activities. His installation of public-health…

Gomera, La, island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Spain, in the North Atlantic Ocean. The island is circular in shape. Its coasts, especially on the west, are rugged and precipitous, and its interior is mountainous.

La Goulette, town located in northern Tunisia and an outport for Tunis. Situated on a sandbar between Lake Tūnis and the Gulf of Tunis, La Goulette (its Arabic name, Ḥalq al-Wādī, means “river’s throat”) is linked to the capital by a canal 7 miles (11 km) long. The main commercial port in Tunisia,

La Grande, city, seat (1905) of Union county, northeastern Oregon, U.S., between the Blue Mountains (west) and Wallowa Mountains (east), on the Grande Ronde River. The region was once roamed by Umatilla Indians. The city was founded in 1864 as a way station along the Oregon Trail. It developed as a

La Grande River, river in Nord-du-Québec region, north-central Quebec province, Canada. Rising from Nichicun Lake in the Otish Mountains of central Quebec, it descends 1,737 feet (529 m) in its westward journey to James Bay, which forms part of Hudson Bay. For most of the river’s course of 555

La Grande River, river in Nord-du-Québec region, north-central Quebec province, Canada. Rising from Nichicun Lake in the Otish Mountains of central Quebec, it descends 1,737 feet (529 m) in its westward journey to James Bay, which forms part of Hudson Bay. For most of the river’s course of 555

San Ildefonso, town, south-central Segovia provincia (province), in southern Castile-León comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), central Spain. The town is surrounded by a dense forest and lies at the foot of the Peñalara Mountains, just southeast of Segovia city. Founded (c. 1450) by Henry IV

La Gruyère, region and southernmost district of Fribourg canton, western Switzerland. La Gruyère lies along the middle reach of La Sarine (Saane) River, on the edge of the Vaudois uplands and the Bernese Oberland (highland), south of Fribourg. The name is derived either from gruyer, a forestry

La Guaira, city, northern Distrito Federal (Federal District), northern Venezuela. One of the country’s leading seaports, La Guaira lies in the narrow, arid coastal zone along the Caribbean at the foot of the central highlands. Although the city dates to 1577, extremely high temperatures and the

airport: Evolution of airports: …at New York City (La Guardia), London (Croydon), Paris (Le Bourget), and Berlin (Tempelhof) were laid out on sites close to the city centres. Because even transport aircraft of the period were relatively light, paved runways were a rarity. Croydon, Tempelhof, and Le Bourget, for example, all operated from…

Fiorello La Guardia was an American politician and lawyer who served three terms (1934–45) as mayor of New York City. La Guardia was reared in Arizona and at the age of 16 moved with his family to his mother’s hometown of Trieste (now in Italy). He was employed at the U.S. consulates at Budapest

Fiorello La Guardia was an American politician and lawyer who served three terms (1934–45) as mayor of New York City. La Guardia was reared in Arizona and at the age of 16 moved with his family to his mother’s hometown of Trieste (now in Italy). He was employed at the U.S. consulates at Budapest

Fiorello La Guardia was an American politician and lawyer who served three terms (1934–45) as mayor of New York City. La Guardia was reared in Arizona and at the age of 16 moved with his family to his mother’s hometown of Trieste (now in Italy). He was employed at the U.S. consulates at Budapest

Alex La Guma was a black novelist of South Africa in the 1960s whose characteristically brief works (e.g., A Walk in the Night [1962], The Stone-Country [1965], and In the Fog of the Season’s End [1972]) gain power through his superb eye for detail, allowing the humour, pathos, or horror of a

La Habra, city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. The city lies just north of Fullerton and southeast of Los Angeles. Its name derives from the Spanish abra (“pass”), with reference to an opening in the nearby Puente Hills. A land grant, known as Rancho La Habra, was made in 1839, and cattle

Little Rock: In 1722 Bernard de la Harpe, a French explorer, saw on the bank of the Arkansas River two conspicuous rock formations, which he reputedly named La Petite Roche and La Grande Roche. Near the smaller rock was a Quapaw Indian settlement, which La Harpe made his trading…

Frédéric-César de La Harpe was a Swiss political leader and Vaudois patriot, tutor and confidant to Tsar Alexander I of Russia and a central figure in the creation of the Helvetic Republic (1798). Resentment of Bernese administration in his native Vaud caused La Harpe to go abroad, and at the

Jean-François de La Harpe was a critic and unsuccessful playwright who wrote severe and provocative criticisms and histories of French literature. Orphaned at age 9 and imprisoned at 19 for allegedly writing a satire against his protectors at college, La Harpe became a bitter and caustic man. Of

Laurent de La Hyre was a French Baroque classical painter whose best work is marked by gravity, simplicity, and dignity. He was the son of the painter Étienne de La Hire (c. 1583–1643) but was most influenced by the work of Georges Lallemont and Orazio Gentileschi. His picture of Pope Nicolas V at

Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron de Lahontan was a French soldier and writer who explored parts of what are now Canada and the United States and who prepared valuable accounts of his travels in the New World. Lahontan went to Canada in 1683 as a marine lieutenant. He participated in an

Laurent de La Hyre was a French Baroque classical painter whose best work is marked by gravity, simplicity, and dignity. He was the son of the painter Étienne de La Hire (c. 1583–1643) but was most influenced by the work of Georges Lallemont and Orazio Gentileschi. His picture of Pope Nicolas V at

Hispaniola, second largest island of the West Indies, lying within the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean Sea. It is divided politically into the Republic of Haiti (west) and the Dominican Republic (east). The island’s area is 29,418 square miles (76,192 square km); its greatest length is nearly

Wars of the Vendée: 17, 1795, the Convention of La Jaunaye granted the Vendée freedom from conscription, liberty of worship, and some indemnities for losses.

Scripps Canyon: …valley joins a larger canyon, La Jolla Canyon, at an axial depth of 980 feet, 1.3 miles from its head. There the walls of Scripps Canyon are V-shaped and have a height of approximately 360 feet.

California: Cultural institutions: …community-sponsored Old Globe Theater and La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Amateur theatrical groups are widespread, as are community orchestras, chamber-music societies, and guest artists. The symphony orchestras of San Francisco and Los Angeles have achieved…

Spain: Iberians of Spain: …Huelva at the cemetery of La Joya. Princely wealth from La Joya included a chariot of walnut wood, an ivory casket with silver hinges, bronze mirrors, tiered incense burners, and ornate libation jugs. Gold jewelry is known from many spectacular treasures in southern Spain, of which the regalia from El…

La Junta, city, seat (1889) of Otero county, southeastern Colorado, U.S. It lies along the Arkansas River at the northern edge of the Comanche National Grassland, at an elevation of 4,052 feet (1,235 metres). Founded in 1875, it was first called Otero, after a Spanish settler; its present name is

Damien Chazelle: La La Land, a charming 21st-century musical starring Emma Stone as an aspiring actress and Ryan Gosling as an ambitious jazz musician, won over critics and audiences alike and garnered numerous awards, including the BAFTA award for best film and the Golden Globe Award for…

Alajuela, city, northwestern Costa Rica. It lies in the Valle Central at an elevation of 3,141 feet (957 metres). Known in colonial days as Villahermosa, the town was active in support of independence from Spain in 1821; five years later it suffered from a plot to restore Spanish control over Costa

La Libertad, city and port, southwestern El Salvador. Its open roadstead port as well as its location south of San Salvador encouraged La Libertad’s development in the 19th century as a shipping outlet for “balsam of Peru”—a variety of balsam yielded from El Salvador’s coastal forests. During the

La Línea, city, Cádiz provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. It lies along the Bay of Gibraltar, between San Roque and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The name is derived from the línea (“line”), or boundary, dividing

La Línea, city, Cádiz provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. It lies along the Bay of Gibraltar, between San Roque and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The name is derived from the línea (“line”), or boundary, dividing

La Louvière, town, Hainaut province, southwestern Belgium, on the Central Canal, about 11 miles (17 km) east of Mons. It has been a centre of coal mining since the 14th century. La Louvière is also a major centre of steel manufacturing and produces sheet metal, furniture, and ceramics. Nearby is

Arung Singkang was a Buginese aristocrat who unified his southern Celebes people and created a state that held out against the Dutch for more than a century. As a young man Arung Singkang was exiled to Borneo, where he gathered a following and in 1737 returned and won control of his native state,

Colombia: Relief: …of Villavicencio the elongated, forested La Macarena Mountains rise 8,000 feet (2,500 metres) from the surrounding lowlands, an isolated tropical ecosystem.

Tlaxcala: …metres) against the backdrop of La Malinche (Matlalcueyetl) volcano, which rises to an elevation 14,636 feet (4,461 metres) within a national park southeast of the capital. The state occupies roughly the same area as did a pre-Hispanic federation that refused to surrender to the Aztecs. Many Indians in the region…

La MaMa, nonprofit institution founded in New York City in 1961 that is a leader in avant-garde and Off-Off-Broadway theatre and the presentation of work by international theatre groups. It provides residence, rehearsal space, theatres, office space, and an archive of Off-Off-Broadway theatre. La

La MaMa, nonprofit institution founded in New York City in 1961 that is a leader in avant-garde and Off-Off-Broadway theatre and the presentation of work by international theatre groups. It provides residence, rehearsal space, theatres, office space, and an archive of Off-Off-Broadway theatre. La

La MaMa, nonprofit institution founded in New York City in 1961 that is a leader in avant-garde and Off-Off-Broadway theatre and the presentation of work by international theatre groups. It provides residence, rehearsal space, theatres, office space, and an archive of Off-Off-Broadway theatre. La

La Mancha, arid but largely fertile elevated plateau (2,000 feet [610 metres]) formed over limestone in central Spain, stretching between the Toledo Mountains and the western spurs of the Cuenca hills and bounded by the La Alcarria region to the north and the Sierra Morena to the south. It includes

La Mancha: …Lakes, which are ensconced in La Mancha Húmeda Biosphere Reserve. Inscribed by UNESCO in 1980, the biosphere reserve also includes the Tablas de Daimiel National Park (a wetlands) and Alcázar Lake. In addition to functioning as a wildlife sanctuary and to offering opportunities for outdoor recreation, the Ruidera Lakes are…

Olivier de La Marche was a Burgundian chronicler and poet who, as historian of the ducal court, was an eloquent spokesman of the chivalrous tradition. After serving as a page to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, La Marche entered the service of the Duke’s son, the count of Charolais (later called

Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons: …(Gaspard III de Coligny) at La Marfée on July 6, 1641, but was killed by a mysterious shot at the moment of his victory.

Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora was an Italian general and statesman who, while in the service of Sardinia–Piedmont, played an important role in the Risorgimento. A graduate of the Turin Military Academy, La Marmora entered the army in 1823 and first distinguished himself in the Italian wars of

Sardinia: Geography: The highest point is Mount La Marmora (6,017 feet [1,834 metres]) in the Gennargentu massif. The climate is subtropical and Mediterranean. Precipitation ranges from 24 inches (600 mm) on the plains to 39 inches (990 mm) in the mountains. Sardinia’s rivers, of which the Tirso and Flumendosa are the…

La Matanza, partido (county) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina. It is located directly southwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). San Justo is the cabecera (county seat). The present-day county was part of the pago (country district) of Las Conchas

Gadsden Purchase, (December 30, 1853), transaction that followed the conquest of much of northern Mexico by the United States in 1848. Known in Mexican history as the sale of the Mesilla Valley, it assigned to the United States nearly 30,000 additional square miles (78,000 square km) of northern

French literature: Refinement of the French language: … (1639; “Treatise on Poetry”) of Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière and the Abbé d’Aubignac’s Pratique du théâtre (1657; “The Practice of Theatre”), both treatises instigated by Cardinal de Richelieu’s personal patronage, which strongly influenced the development of Classical doctrine.

Julien Offroy de La Mettrie was a French physician and philosopher whose Materialistic interpretation of psychic phenomena laid the groundwork for future developments of behaviourism and played an important part in the history of modern Materialism. La Mettrie obtained a medical degree at Reims,

François de La Mothe Le Vayer was an independent French thinker and writer who developed a philosophy of Skepticism more radical than that of Michel de Montaigne but less absolute than that of Pierre Bayle. La Mothe Le Vayer became an avocat in the Parlement of Paris, taking over his father’s seat,

French literature: Religious authors: François de La Mothe-Fénelon was a much less orthodox churchman, and the influence he wielded was of a more liberal nature. Like Bossuet, he was a tutor in the royal household, and he was also author of a novel, Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699; Telemachus,…

Affair of the Diamond Necklace: …part of an adventuress, the comtesse (countess) de La Motte, to procure, supposedly for Queen Marie-Antoinette but in reality for herself and her associates, a diamond necklace worth 1,600,000 livres. The necklace was the property of the Parisian firm of jewelers Boehmer and Bassenge, who had tried unsuccessfully to sell…

Balloon Corps: Lowe of New Hampshire and John La Mountain of New York combined entertainment with long-distance test flights. Both men also employed balloons as aerial observation platforms for the Union army.

Nausea, first novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in French in 1938 as La Nausée. It is considered Sartre’s fiction masterwork and is an important expression of existentialist philosophy. Nausea is written in the form of a diary that narrates the recurring feelings of revulsion that overcome

La Niña, cyclic counterpart to El Niño, consisting of a cooling of surface waters of the Pacific Ocean along the western coast of South America. While its local effects on weather and climate are generally the opposite of those associated with El Niño, its global effects can be more complex. La

François de La Noue was a Huguenot captain in the French Wars of Religion (1562–98), known for his exploits as a soldier and for his military and historical writings. La Noue became a Protestant in 1558 and soon began fighting for the Huguenot cause. Wounded at Fontenay (1570), he had one arm

La Orotava, town, northern Tenerife island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), Spain, just southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife city. The town is a health resort with its port, Puerto de la Cruz, on the coast immediately to

La Oroya, city, central Peru. It is situated at the junction of the Mantaro and Yauli rivers on a central plateau of the Andes Mountains, at an elevation of 12,195 feet (3,717 metres). The city, located in a rich mining region based on the Cerro de Pasco, Morococha, and Casapalca mines, is a

La Palma, town, eastern Panama, on the estuary of the Tuira River near the Gulf of San Miguel. It is the principal trading centre for the large sparsely populated region that surrounds it. Plantains, corn (maize), and rice are cultivated, and livestock is raised; there is also some sawmilling.

La Palma, island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of the Canary Islands of Spain, in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwestern coast of Africa. The economy of La Palma revolves around irrigation-based farming. Bananas, tomatoes, and

Carlo Goldoni: , Pamela, a Comedy, 1756), a serious drama based on Samuel Richardson’s novel.

the Pampas, vast plains extending westward across central Argentina from the Atlantic coast to the Andean foothills, bounded by the Gran Chaco (north) and Patagonia (south). The name comes from a Quechua word meaning “flat surface.” The Pampas have a gradual downward slope from northwest to

La Pampa, provincia (province), central Argentina. It lies immediately west of Buenos Aires province and straddles drier sections of the Pampa (northeast) and semiarid sections of the Patagonian Desert (southwest). The east-central city of Santa Rosa is the provincial capital. The western and

Santa Rosa: …art and natural history; the University of La Pampa was founded there in 1958. The city is a communications hub that serves central Argentina. Pop. (2001) 94,340; (2010 est.) 102,500.

La Paz, town, southwestern Honduras, at an elevation of 2,461 feet (750 metres) above sea level in the Comayagua River valley, on the eastern flanks of the Cordillera de Montecillos. It was founded in 1792 and has been called La Paz since 1861. The town serves as a commercial centre for the

La Paz, city, capital of Baja California Sur estado (state), northwestern Mexico. It lies about 40 feet (12 metres) above sea level on sheltered La Paz Bay of the Gulf of California (also called Sea of Cortez) and has a hot dry climate. Spaniards charted the bay in 1533, but a Jesuit mission was

La Paz, city, administrative capital of Bolivia, west-central Bolivia. It is situated some 42 miles (68 km) southeast of Lake Titicaca. La Paz, which lies between 10,650 and 13,250 feet (3,250 and 4,100 metres) above sea level, is the world’s highest national capital. Visitors, upon arrival, often