Education
Primary education is nominally free and compulsory for children between the ages of 6 and 14, but the public schools, although increasing in number, do not meet the needs of Bolivia, which has an illiteracy rate of nearly 35%.
In the late 1980s about 888,200 pupils attended primary schools, some 211,500 attended secondary schools, and about 97,200 were enrolled in institutions of higher education.
Bolivia has ten universities: at Sucre, La Paz (two), Cochabamba, Llallagua, Oruro, Potosí, Santa Cruz, Tarija, and Trinidad. Saint Francis Xavier University (1624), in Sucre, is one of the oldest in the Americas. The University of San Andrés (1830), in La Paz, is the largest university in Bolivia, with a student enrollment of about 37,000.
Bolivia, republic, central South America, bounded on the north and east by Brazil, on the southeast by Paraguay, on the south by Argentina, and on the west by Chile and Peru. Bolivia is, with Paraguay, the only South American country without direct access to the sea. In a northern-southern direction the maximum length of Bolivia is about 1530 km (about 950 mi); its extreme breadth, in an eastern-western direction, is about 1450 km (about 900 mi). The area is 1,098,581 sq km (424,165 sq mi), making it fifth in size (after Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia) of South American countries.
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Economy
Although many of the largest mining operations were nationalized during the 1950s, successive Bolivian governments have encouraged private industrial development and actively sought foreign investment capital. Annual budget figures for the late 1980s show revenues and expenditures balanced at about $2.9 billion.
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Climate
Although situated entirely within the Tropics, Bolivia, as a result of its varied elevation, has a wide range of climate. In the higher regions the climate is cold and dry but generally healthful, in spite of the cutting winds, the thinness of the atmosphere, and the daily extremes of temperature. In the lower-lying regions the climate is warmer. The mean annual temperatures range from about 8.3° C (about 47° F) in the Altiplano to about 26.1° C (about 79° F) in the eastern lowlands.
List of universities in Bolivia
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