Talk:La Paz

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I do not see this article anywhere on the nominations page. this page sucks balls This article should be re-named La Paz, Bolivia since there are many other cities and towns with the same name. Access should be via the disambiguation page for La Paz. Tmangray 17:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree and also I can not find any thing about restaurants or any info on them what so ever. I think this website should at least give some form of valuable information on every topic basing it on La Paz, Bolivia. {sigh} I have a 250 project due in a couple of days and I do not have time to go to Barnes & Nobel to find the info that i need, so do some of us a favor and get some info on Restaurants! Thank you very much I appreciate it

          p.s- what does disambiguation mean? stop bitching

I see no reason to name the article La Paz, Bolivia; there are other places called La Paz, but there are also many places called Paris. La Paz is the highest capital in the world, has a large population, and a completely unique urban topography. Dawson 02:17, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Dawson

It most definitely should be renamed, as there is also a La Paz, Baja California Sur. The mexican state's capital. Oddly enough, THAT ONE is named La Paz, Baja California Sur. 66.119.27.235 16:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. There's a Paris in Texas, but the article about Paris in France is just called "Paris". Similarly, there are at least two places called New York in England. There's a London and a Sydney in Ontario, but does that mean that the article entitled "London" should be changed to "London, United Kingdom" and "Sydney" to "Sydney, Australia"? No — and similarly, when people around the world talk about "La Paz" they are generally assumed to be talking about La Paz in Bolivia: in the absence of local reasons to assume anything else, if they mean another La Paz, they say so. Ondewelle, 19 May 2008

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[edit] picture by NASA, ok I'm removing that

La Paz ""Areal view by NASA""

- so how do we know it was from NASA. If so, it's irrelevant, there are thousands of areal vies of cities. i'm taking that off. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 13:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

I'm sure the Bolivian Air Force did it. Oh wait, the US doesnt allow Bolivia to buy planes for its airforce... its probably NASA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.89.94.90 (talk) 16:36, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to that upset guy.

Ok, I'll try to do that restaurant thing for all of you since I live here even though I never though wikipedia was a pub locator. The thing you say about disambiguation... ok, the other places with the same name are mostly small towns in comparison; plus this is the capital of an entire contry unlike the other places. enough said. If you are lazy enough to do this your self, it's necesary for you to shut your pie hole. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 13:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Ok, i'm doing this my self

sorry but this article is incomplete, unaccurate and really... bad. so i will do the entire article my self like I did with the spansh version. I live here, I was born here and now I will re make this because i think it was written by a tourist, not by someone that knows this place good enough. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 14:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Satellite view

Wow. In the purported "NASA satellital view", La Paz is so small as to be invisible. Can you find it? A closer view (about 100 times closer) would be more useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xuehxolotl (talk • contribs) 01:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dubious reason

The statement "The reason for this division is that the lower you go in the city, the more oxygen there is in the air and the milder the weather is" is dubious. The altitude difference between the valley bottom in the city centre and the surrounding hills is hardly enough to notice the difference in oxygen and weather. In fact, the same division between poor and rich is also present in other South American cities where altitude does not play a role. For example, in Rio, the rich like to build their homes on flat level land in the valleys where access is easy, and the poor are pushed to the inaccessible hills where land is not useful for much else. I suspect that this may be the case in La Paz as well. -- P199 (talk) 13:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but people also enjoy milder weather. La Paz is definitively not Rio or Sao Paolo to apply that formula too. The average temperature at night is 0 to 5 degrees celsius. So whoever wrote that, has a point about it. Rich people dont move to El Alto cuz its flat and accessible... if you know what I mean. If not, look up El Alto on google images and you will know what I mean. Its pretty stupid how you try to stereotype everyone... stop being so ignorant! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.89.94.90 (talk) 16:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

At these high altitudes, small differences in height make much more difference than they do at lower altitudes in terms of propensity for altitude-related illnesses. However, I shouldn't have thought that this was a big issue for people living at these atitudes as much as for people who are visiting and so are not acclimatised.Ondewelle, 19 May 2008