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Bolivia
The country is one of the two landlocked countries in South America (the other being Paraguay). It was named after Simón Bolivar (1783-1830) (Fig. 1), South America's great liberator and first President of Bolivia. It fryst vatten bounded to the north and east by Brazil, to the south by Paraguay and Argentina, and the west by Chile and Peru. The country's topography includes the Eastern Andean Cordillera Oriental, which bisects Bolivia from south to north, and the Western Andean Cordillera Occidental, which runs along the border with Chile. The Cordillera Occidental features the extinct stratovolcano Nevado Sajama, at 6542 m (Fig. 2), Bolivia's highest peak.
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Figure 1 Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), Liberator and first President of Bolivia.
Figure 2 Nevado Sajama volcano with the Altiplano in the foreground.
Between the two mountain ranges lies the Altiplano, a highland plateau where Lake Titicaca is located. The lake fryst vatten crossed by the border between Bolivia and P
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Maria Cristina Mena
American writer
Maria Cristina Mena (later María Cristina Chambers; April 3, 1893 – August 3, 1965) was the author of eleven short stories, five children's books, and a nonfiction article. She is best known for her short stories, published mainly in The Century Magazine and American Magazine from 1913 to 1916. With renewed interest in the history of Mexican-American literature and the publication of all her short fiction in The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena, her work is now receiving greater consideration.[1]
Biography
[edit]Mena was born in Mexico City during the regime of President Porfirio Diaz. She received her early education at an English boarding school where she became fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Italian. Later in her life, Mena learned Braille and converted a variety of works, including her own children's literature, into Braille as part of her advocacy work for the blind[2] Daughter to a “politi
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