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  Santa Cruz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz (Armamar), a parish in the district of Armamar
Santa Cruz (Coimbra), a parish in the district of Coimbra
Santa Cruz (Vinhais), a parish in the district of Vinhais
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Cruz   (192 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de la Sierra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz de La Sierra, commonly known as simply Santa Cruz, is, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, the capital city of the Department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia.
Santa Cruz de La Sierra was first founded on February 26, 1560 by Ñuflo de Chávez who gave the new settlement its name, which means "Holy Cross of the Hills," in honor of his beloved native city in Extremadura, Spain.
Santa Cruz is connected by railway to Argentina and Brazil, and connected by a road built in the 1950s to Trinidad, Cochabamba and also has newly constructed paved roads to Camiri-Yacuiba-Argentina and another to Cochabamba.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Cruz,_Bolivia   (676 words)

  
 UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1996 Issue 1 - 008
As regards the drugs trade, Santa Cruz became a producer zone for coca paste at an early stage (in the 1970s), owing to the fact that it adjoins the Cochabamba administrative district where coca leaves are produced and large numbers of the rural population are engaged in their production.
Santa Cruz is an administrative district which has experienced rapid growth; its vast uninhabited expanses of land, with their great potential for agricultural and stockbreeding development, attract migrants from all parts of the country.
The economy of Santa Cruz is based on agriculture and stockbreeding, the extraction of hydrocarbons and characteristic activity in the tertiary sector.
www.unodc.org /unodc/es/bulletin/bulletin_1996-01-01_1_page009.html   (6443 words)

  
 Bolivia.com - Turismo : Santa Cruz de la Sierra
La estructura se adelanta sobre la fachada, creando un pórtico decorado con frontón de madera calada, con temas barrocos vegetales.
disfruta de los panoramas, paisajes, de las excursiones tanto a lagos como a cavernas, encontrará que en esta población es adecuada para sus deseos.
De la ciudad de Santa Cruz, en dirección al oeste sobre la carretera a Cochabamba.
www.bolivia.com /Turismo/ciudades/Santa_cruz/que_visitar.htm   (966 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de la Sierra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The diocese comprises the departments of Santa Cruz (area 126,000 sq.
The converted Indians numbered over 50,000 at the time of the suppression of the society, after which the missions declined rapidly; but though many of the Moxos are now pagan, the converted Indians are fervent Catholics (see MOXOS INDIANS).
The town of Santa Cruz (population 18,000), formerly called also San Lorenzo de la Frontera, was founded in 1575 on the Rio Piray, on the eastern slope of the Andes.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/santa_cruz_de_la_sierra.html   (254 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Santa Cruz de la Sierra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Santa Cruz de la Sierra was founded in the 16th cent.
Santa Cruz jewel box: a California glassmaker displays her wares.
Los exitosos empresarios zapotecas: lograron combinar la tradicion comunitaria con el espiritu renovador y ahora son la envidia de la sierra Juarez.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SntCrzBol.asp   (348 words)

  
 Santa Cruz travel guide - Wikitravel
Santa Cruz (or Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is the second most populous city in Bolivia, and the capital of the department of Santa Cruz.
In contrast to La Paz and the other major Bolivian cities located high in the Andes, Santa Cruz lies at an altitude of 416 meters, and its climate is distinctly tropical.
Major airlines have daily flights to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, mainly from La Paz (about 4 flights per day: early in the morning, in the afternoon, early in the evening and late in the night).
wikitravel.org /en/Santa_Cruz_(city,_Bolivia)   (596 words)

  
 Bolivia Web - Bolivia and Main Cities - Santa Cruz
The city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra was founded by Ñuflo de Chávez on February 26, 1560.
Santa Cruz supplied the rest of the colony with cotton, rice, sugar and fruit.
By November 1996, according to data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra had a population of 904,376 inhabitants.
www.boliviaweb.com /cities/scruz.htm   (656 words)

  
 Free Wisdom Online: Santa Cruz de la Sierra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We got there after a short flight from Rio de Janeiro, which would be quite painless if it wasn't for the fact that neither of us got much sleep the night before as we were both trying to finish up conference papers before taking off for a three week vacation.
We stayed in Santa Cruz itself for 2 full days (Friday and Monday) and used the weekend to go to Samaipata a few hours away by car.
Santa Cruz has a pleasant downtown, surprisingly small for a town of over a million people.
www.freewisdom.org /archives/2005/12/27/santa_cruz_de_la   (491 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Santa Cruz de la Sierra, South America (South American Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, South American Political Geography
Santa Cruz de la Sierra[sAn´tA krOOs thA lA sEer´A] Pronunciation Key, city (1992 pop.
A trade and processing center for sugar, rice, cotton, fruit, and corn, it is of strategic and commercial importance because of its central location; there are also natural-gas reserves and an oil refinery nearby.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SntCrzBol.html   (237 words)

  
 Hotels in Santa Cruz - Details, rates and booking - Bolivia Contact
Bolivia Contact presents offers from the cheapest hotels, to the most luxurious five star hotels hotels in Santa Cruz, and a great variety in lodgings for the commercial traveler, also for those with vacational purpose.
The Gran Santa Cruz Hotel, only five star hotel located in the commercial and financial center of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, two blocks away from the Main Square and 15 minutes from Viru Viru Airport.
It is located in Santa Cruz de la Sierra city, in the central Cañoto Avenue to few steps of the commercial and financial center of the city.
www.boliviacontact.com /Hotels_SantaCruzs.html   (481 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Bolivia Travel and Tours to Santa Cruz Enjoy Bolivia
The afternoon perspires heaviness and fatigue in the Cabins of Piraí, one of the many charming corners in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the tropical paradise of Bolivia.
Until the 17th century, the city was flanked by not evangelized native groups; for what became the starting point of the missionary Jesuit expeditions that sought to catechize the inhabitants of the areas of Moxos and Chiquitos.
That is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the tropical paradise of Bolivia.
www.enjoybolivia.com /english/guiadestinos/santacruz/INTRO_IN.shtml   (318 words)

  
 En Santa Cruz de la Sierra mencionan a médicos argentinos
En Santa Cruz de la Sierra mencionan a médicos argentinos
Inglaterra avanza gracias a la pegada de Beckham
La venta de inmuebles en Capital aumentó en mayo
www.clarin.com /suplementos/zona/2006/06/25/z-01222141.htm   (620 words)

  
 Top20Bolivia.com - Your Top20 Guide to Bolivia!
The most dramatic change undertaken by the Sánchez de Lozada government was the "capitalization" program, under which investors, typically foreign, acquired 50% ownership and management control of public enterprises, such as the state oil corporation, telecommunications system, airlines, railroads, and electric utilities in return for agreed upon capital investments.
La Paz is the political and economic capital of Bolivia.
Santa Cruz, the commercial and industrial hub of the eastern lowlands, also is experiencing rapid population and economic growth.
www.top20bolivia.com   (4299 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Archdiocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]
Juan Domingo González de la Reguera † (16 Dec 1776 Appointed - 18 Sep 1780 Appointed, Archbishop of Lima)
Diocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (erected)
Antonio Calderón de León † (Bishop: 1605 to 1621)
www.catholic-hierarchy.org /diocese/dscsi.html   (472 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Santa Cruz dela Sierra is becoming the most populous city in Bolivia.
Santa Cruz is a hot tropical lowland city rivalling La Paz as the country's most populous.
Aqualand is a water park north of Santa Cruz.
tunari.tripod.com /id24.html   (204 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de la Sierra : Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Overview of Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
Santa Cruz (also known as Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is the least Bolivian of all Bolivian cities.
But visitors should make Santa Cruz their base for exploring the wealth of attractions -- Inca ruins, historic Jesuit missions, and a unique national park -- only a few hours away from this booming metropolis.
www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=2829&catID=2829010001   (204 words)

  
 Special Meeting of the Andean Presidential Council - Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia - January 28 to 30, 2002 -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, January 30, 2002
This is a good time to come to Santa Cruz de la Sierra to continue invoking the memory of Bolívar —and not just the memory of Bolívar and his glories, but the true Bolivarianism, that which summoned us to a political union.
We propose —and this is a meeting that has been pending, dear colleagues, since its approval by the Andean Presidential Council two years ago, and which we have been unable to carry out for several reasons— and Caracas is at your service for this, to meet there to discuss the political future of integration.
www.comunidadandina.org /cumbreSC/speeches9.htm   (407 words)

  
 Maps Of Bolivia
La Paz Department - La Paz Department - Provinces of Camacho, Munecas, Omasuyos, Larecaja, Nor Yungas, Sud Yungas, Murillo, Los Andes, Ingavi, Inquisivi, and Loayza.
Santa Cruz Department - Santa Cruz Department - Northern portions of the provinces of Nuflo de Chavez and Velasco.
Santa Cruz Department - Santa Cruz Department - Southern portion of province of Velasco.
www.embassyworld.com /maps/Maps_Of_Bolivia.html   (1030 words)

  
 Summit on Sustainable Development - Declaration, English
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, December 7-8, 1996
The following document is the complete text of the Declaration of Santa Cruz signed by the Heads of State and Government participating in the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development:
Thus we sign the Declaration of Santa Cruz and adopt the Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Americas on this seventh day of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six, in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese.
www.summit-americas.org /boliviadec.htm   (1448 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de la Sierra - Bolivia
Gráfica de la jornada electoral por la Autonomía y Asamblea Constituyente
El FMI dijo hoy que la mayor intervención del Estado boliviano en la economía impulsada por el Gobierno de Evo Morales perjudica a la inversión privada e instó a suprimir los subsidios que abaratan el combustible.
A un año y medio de la tragedia provocada por un tsunami, otro fenómeno similar azotó la costa sur de la isla de Java (Indonesia).
www.eldeber.com.bo   (677 words)

  
 Tourism in Santa Cruz de la Sierra city, Hotels List - Bolivia Contact
The department of Santa Cruz with its capital Santa Cruz de la Sierra is located in the Amazon area of Bolivia and it has a natural wealth of extraordinary beauty.
· Casa de la Cultura, which is in activity since 1978 an offers lectures, theater works, concerts, movies, videos, courses and workshops, paint exhibits, photographs, sculpture and others.
Another attraction in the city is the Zoological Park of South American Life, this park presents a variety collection of the animal life of South America, with valuable species that are not found in other zoos, like: the borochi or mane wolf (Chrysocyon brachiurus), the mount dog (Speothos venaticus) and the solitary hog (Catogonuswagneri).
www.boliviacontact.com /en/conozca/santaCruz.php   (881 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de la Sierra : Getting There   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By Bus -- The Santa Cruz bus terminal on Avenida Cañoto and Avenida Irala is a truly mad scene.
Thousands of people crowd the station at all times of the day, and there's no central information office, so you have to figure out on your own where the bus you want is leaving from.
Buses from La Paz usually arrive in the morning.
www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=2829&catID=2829020009   (263 words)

  
 Special Meeting of the Andean Presidential Council - Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia - January 28 to 30, 2002 -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, January 28, 2002
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, January 27, 2002
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, January 25, 2002
www.comunidadandina.org /cumbreSC/news.htm   (577 words)

  
 AG/RES. 1514 (XXVII-O/97)
The Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and the Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Americas, adopted by the heads of state and government at the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development, held in Bolivia, in December 1996,
To take note of the report of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) on coordination and follow-up of the Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and the Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Americas.
To support the Secretary General's efforts to prepare the report on progress made in implementing the decisions of the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development, to be made available prior to the 1998 Summit of the Americas.
www.oas.org /JURIDICO/english/ga-res97/eres1514.htm   (327 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas Information Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The objective of the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia on December 7-8, 1996, was to establish a common vision for the future based on the fundamentals of sustainable development and to ratify the principles subscribed at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development.
Leaders made, a commitment to discuss progress concerning the implementation of national and international activities at a 1996 Santa Cruz Summit on Sustainable Development in Bolivia, and at subsequent annual sustainable development Ministerial meetings.
The outcome of the consultations with Bolivia on dates and an agenda for the High Level Ministerial Meeting in Santa Cruz was a proposal to hold the meeting at the end of November or the first week of December.
www.summit-americas.org /Quebec-SusDevt/susdevt-eng.htm   (3613 words)

  
 Publications
The Inter-American Development Bank is pleased to be associated with this historic meeting of the Heads of State for the Summit Conference on Sustainable Development in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
The Summit in Miami and this Summit in Santa Cruz are aimed at mobilizing greater hemispheric solidarity.
In this document, we inform the Heads of State meeting in Santa Cruz of the Bank's present and future efforts that respond to the call of the Santa Cruz Summit to international organizations in support of its Declaration.
www.iadb.org /SDS/publication/publication_44_e.htm   (391 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia): Information on the city Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia): Information on the city Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Both the highway of linking with Cochabamba, and the wealth accumulated in the underground, made Santa Cruz one region of privilege and an economical boom without predecessors in the history of Bolivia.
It can be said that the city of Santa Cruz is one of the few cities, not only of Bolivia but of America as well, that has planned its own urban development through a system of rings that surround successively the city.
www.spanishcourses.info /cities/169_santa_cruz_de_la_sierra_EN.asp   (814 words)

  
 Rescuing the Image: The 5th Ibero-American Film Festival, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
As such, the Ibero-American Film Festival of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia is in itself an act of defiance.
Despite the claim by many working in the national industries that Latin American cinema is in almost terminal decline, Santa Cruz is a valuable platform both for veterans and for new generations of filmmakers with fresh ideas, a high degree of technical accomplishment and the talent to script a good story.
Leyton is a smooth-talking fisherman accused of a crime by the inhabitants of his village, and almost the entire film is narrated by him in first-person flashback as he explains his misdemeanours into the microphone of the local radio station.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/03/29/5th_ibero_american_film_fest.html   (2322 words)

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