La Paz is the highest capital city in the world and lies 500m below the airport at the bottom of a steep canyon ringed by snow-peaked mountains. The views are breathtaking and the Spanish chose this odd place for a city on 20 October 1548 to avoid the chill winds of the plateau and because they had found gold in the river that runs through the canyon. There was a football match going on in the stadium and lots of cheering could be heard.
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