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Bolivian NYC

Bolivian NYC is in Queens and Paterson, New Jersey. The Queens Bolivian Parade is New York City’s big Bolivian festival.

Bolivian Festivals in NYC

The Bolivian Parade in Queens is New York City’s big Bolivian festival. You can also find Bolivian culture at the Dance Parade, Hispanic Day Parade and Junta Hispana street fair. The Dance Parade hosts many Bolivian Caporales dance groups.

Bolivian New York City

The Bolivian Consulate is in Midtown East. New York City’s Bolivian community is in Queens and Paterson, New Jersey.

Bolivian Food in NYC

Bolivian Salteñas (© Ildipapp/Dreamstime)
Bolivian Salteñas (© Ildipapp/Dreamstime)

Puerta Del Sol in Woodside, Queens serves traditional Bolivian food.

You can get salteñas (Bolivian meat pastries) at the Bolivian Llama Party kiosk in the Turnstyle Underground Market on Eighth Ave and 57th St in Hell’s Kitchen. There is another in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Bolivian Culture

Bolivian Caporales dancer (© Jeremy Richards/Dreamstime)
Bolivian Caporales dancer (© Jeremy Richards/Dreamstime)

Bolivia’s Indigenous culture remains very strong. Bolivian culture is a rich blend of Indigenous, Spanish colonial and African cultures.

Bolivia has many interesting folk dances including Caporales, Diablada, Morenada, Tinku and Tobas.

Bolivian Intangible Cultural Heritage

UNESCO recognizes these Bolivian contributions to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity:

  • Alasita ritual journeys
  • Carnaval de Oruro is one of South America’s biggest cultural festivals.
  • Ichapekene Piesta
  • Kallawaya
  • Pujllay and Ayarichi music and dance of the Yampara culture.
  • Santísima Trinidad del Señor Jesús del Gran Poder in La Paz.

Visit Bolivia

The Carnaval de Oruro is one of South America’s great cultural festivals. It was originally an Indigenous festival that was syncretized with the Virgin of Candelaria to preserve Indigenous traditions in the Colonial Era. It’s now a pre-Lenten carnival.

Bolivian World Heritage Sites

UNESCO recognizes these world heritage sites in Bolivia:

  • Chiquitos in Santa Cruz Department has restored colonial Jesuit missions.
  • Fuerte de Samaipata in Florida Province of Santa Cruz Department is a town with ceremonial Indigenous rock sculptures.
  • Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in Santa Cruz Department has beautiful waterfalls.
  • Potosí in Potosí Department, is the city of Cerro Rico, the legendary silver mountain of the Spanish colonial era.
  • Qhapaq Ñan is the ancient Inca road system that follows the Andes. The mountain road that passes through Bolivia, runs from Colombia to Mendoza, Argentina
  • Sucre in Oropeza Province of Chuquisaca Department, is a town known for its fusion of Indigenous and Colonial architecture.
  • Tiahuanacu in Ingavi Province of La Paz Department is an ancient center of Tiahuanacu culture.

Past Bolivian Culture in NYC

Christie’s Latin American Art Auction Spring 2018

May 24, 2018: Rivera (Mexican) set a record for any Latin American artist. Botero (Colombian) got a record for one of his still lifes. Colonial painter Juan Francisco de Rosa’s ‘Virgen del Rosario’ sold for 30x its estimate.
Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Midtown, Manhattan
ON VIEW
Monday – Wednesday
May 21 – 23, 2018
AUCTION
Wednesday – Thursday
May 23 – 24, 2018

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Death in Arizona

Unusual visual poetry about love lost is intertwined with thoughts of the sole survivor of a cataclysmic event in Tin Dirdamal’s 2014 Mexican-Bolivian-German film. Screens with director Q&A as part of the PROYECTOR series at UnionDocs Brooklyn on Friday July 15 at 7:30pm.

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Dancers at La Fiesta de la Virgin de Guadalupe in Sucre, Bolivia (© Rafal Cichawa/Dreamstime)
Dancers at La Fiesta de la Virgin de Guadalupe in Sucre, Bolivia (© Rafal Cichawa/Dreamstime)

Sulpayki / Yuspagara
(Thank you in Quechua / Aymara)

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