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24-496: During the presidency of Eliodoro Villazón the province was founded on December 16, 1909, with Viacha as its capital. Ingavi lies on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca . The Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below: Ingavi Province is divided into seven municipalities which are partly further subdivided into cantons. The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Aymara descent. Some of

48-467: A Doctor of Law (lawyer) in 1891. In 1891, he entered into the world of politics and, by the next year, a member of the council of the city of Oruro . Years later, he was elected as a deputy and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1894 and 1900. In those years, he moved to Sucre , then the capital of Bolivia, where he founded the newspaper Revista de Bolivia . He would also collaborate with

72-675: A defender of the free trade economic model. For a while, he was the legal counsellor to the Bolivian mining magnate Simón I. Patiño . In 1901, he was named vice secretary of the Office of the Ministry of Government and, as such, was in charge of the drafting of the Electoral and Printing Regulations. During the administration of Ismael Montes Gamboa , he was Minister of Public Instruction and Justice. During his term, he greatly influenced

96-794: The Geographical Society of Madrid, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of International Law, among other institutions. In May 1931, he was sent to Argentina to negotiate the sale of oil. He was carrying out said management when he suddenly died in the Argentine capital city of Buenos Aires . He married Carmen Calvo, with whom he had nine children. Among his children were the two distinguished Bolivian feminists Carmen Sanchez Bustamante , and Maria Luisa Sanchez Bustamante . One of his grandsons, son of his daughter Carmen,

120-708: The Higher Institute of Commerce of La Paz, hoping to further the economic stability the country was enjoying. He also founded the Oruro School of Mines, today the National Faculty of Engineering, and built railway from Cochabamba to Arani, inaugurated in 1913. Villazón signed a Border Rectification Treaty with Peru, known as the Polo-Sánchez Bustamante Treaty. It was signed in the city of La Paz on September 17, 1909, by

144-633: The Minister Plenipotentiary of Peru, Solón Polo, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, Daniel Sánchez Bustamante . This treaty put an end to the Peruvian-Bolivian border dispute, and prevented an alliance between Bolivia and Chile against Peru. It also fixed some pending boundary issues with Argentina. At the end of his term, he handed over the command of his party to his eventual successor, Ismael Montes, who won

168-597: The Pacific Ocean through the Peruvian provinces of Tacna and Arica , then under Chilean administration. After 1910, shortly before he left his ministerial position, an incident on the Peruvian border took place which threatened the renewal of hostilities between Bolivia and Peru. A large Bolivian detachment attacked the garrison of Guayabal, in the Manuripe. The smaller Peruvian garrison which defended said post

192-599: The Sucre-based newspaper Eco Moderno in 1898. In 1895, he married Carmen Calvo, with whom he had nine children. He was also dedicated to teaching, serving as professor of Sociology and Philosophy in the universities of Sucre and La Paz. Furthermore, he was Fue además Instruction Commissioner of the Municipality of La Paz. As a politician, he was a distinguished member of the Liberal Party and, as such,

216-598: The development of the country's public education. On 6 June 1909, he founded the first national school for teachers in the country's capital, a date later made Teachers' Days in Bolivia by the Supreme decree of 24 May 1924. On 7 August 1909, he was assigned Minister of Foreign Affairs on an interim basis and, a week later, on a permanent basis. During his term, the Polo-Bustamante Border Treaty

240-565: The fortunes of several magnates of his time, including that of Francisco Argandoña and Gregorio Pacheco . Because of his affluence and political power, he was one of the main founders of the Liberal Party of Bolivia and supported his party during the Bolivian Civil War of 1898-1899 . He was Minister of Foreign Relations during the government of liberal President José Manuel Pando , and he devoted himself to resolving border conflicts with Bolivia's neighboring countries. During

264-633: The general elections of 1913 and was inaugurated as president on August 14. Villazón then traveled to Buenos Aires to work as Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Bolivia in Argentina. Twenty-six years after having left the presidency, Eliodoro Villazón died on September 12, 1939, in the city of Cochabamba at the age of ninety-one. He was one of the four oldest presidents of Bolivia, along with Hugo Ballivián , Víctor Paz Estenssoro and Lidia Gueiler . Daniel S%C3%A1nchez Bustamante Daniel Sánchez Bustamante Vásquez (10 April 1871 – 5 August 1933)

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288-522: The government of newly installed President Agustín Morales after the overthrow of Melgarejo. Furthermore, he attended the Conventions of 1880 and 1889 as a delegate. He was Minister of Finance and Industry during the government of President Narciso Campero , in which he also represented Bolivia as its financial agent in Europe. Specialized in finance, Villazón made a considerable fortune by managing

312-485: The main signatory for Bolivia in the Polo-Bustamante Treaty (1909), a border treaty signed with Peru to set what is now the current border between the two Andean nations. Daniel Sánchez Bustamante was born in the city of La Paz on 10 April 1871. He was the son of Juan Sánchez de Bustamante and Mercedes Vásquez-Bru Zuazo. He received his education in his home city where he studied law and graduated as

336-569: The newspaper El Ferroviario . Villazon married Enriqueta Torrico. He began his political career at a very young age, joining the Partido Rojo , a party founded by former president José María Linares . He was also a municipal councilor for the city of Cochabamba and Deputy for the department of Cochabamba on several occasions. At the age of twenty-three, Villazón attended the National Assembly of 1871 which had been called by

360-591: The presidency of Ismael Montes , Villazón became Vice President of Bolivia at the age of 56, serving from 1904 to 1909. He also worked as a defense attorney in the Bolivian-Peruvian border dispute over the Manuripi. Villazón ran as the Liberal Party's candidate for the presidency during the 1909 general elections. He triumphed by a wide margin that year, succeeding Ismael Montes as president. He

384-461: The second time as Minister of Foreign Affairs, during the presidency of Daniel Salamanca . But this time his tenure was brief, since he resigned on 22 May of the same year. During the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, he was sent to Buenos Aires as advisor to the Bolivian commission in the peace negotiations, and even met with Argentine President José Félix Uriburu . He was a member of

408-434: The tourist attractions of the municipalities are: 16°43′S 68°50′W  /  16.717°S 68.833°W  / -16.717; -68.833 Eliodoro Villaz%C3%B3n Eliodoro Villazón Montaño (22 January 1848 – 12 September 1939) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 27th president of Bolivia from 1909 to 1913 and as the 15th vice president of Bolivia from 1904 to 1909. Villazón

432-451: The treaty bears the names of both signatories, Polo and Bustamante. Sánchez Bustamante also endorsed a treaty of Commerce and River Navigation between Bolivia and Brazil, signed in Rio de Janeiro on 12 August 1910. In a memorandum dated 22 April 1910, directed to his Chilean and Peruvian counterparts, he proposed that these two countries stop bordering one another and Bolivia be given access to

456-587: Was President of Central Bank of Bolivia from 1928 to 1930. In 1930, he was in charge of drafting the Public Education Statute, which established university autonomy inspired by the postulates of the 1918 university reform initiated in Córdoba , Argentina. In this regard, he had the support of the President of Bolivia, General Carlos Blanco Galindo . On 5 March 1931, he was invested for

480-469: Was a Bolivian educator, politician, lawyer, professor, author, and diplomat. He was the Bolivian Minister of Public Instruction and of Foreign Affairs on various occasions between 1909 and 1931. He is considered one of the most important reformers in the public education of his country being the founder of the first school for teacher training. In charge of his country's foreign affairs, he was

504-506: Was born on January 22, 1848, in the town of Sacaba in the department of Cochabamba . He was the son of José Manuel Villazón and Manuela Montaño. His great uncle was General Anastasio Villazón . He graduated as a lawyer from the University of San Francisco Xavier and one of the most distinguished lawmakers in the country. At the age of twenty, during the de facto government of President Mariano Melgarejo (1864-1871), Villazón founded

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528-484: Was exterminated; among the casualties of the border skirmish were lieutenant Alejandro Acevedo and sergeant Carlos Zela (19 November 1910). However, the matter was not escalated, since a protocol signed in 1911 between both countries smoothed out the dispute surrounding the execution of the boundary treaty. In 1917, during the government of President José Gutiérrez Guerra , he was Minister of Education and Agriculture. He came to be proclaimed Master of Bolivian youth. He

552-418: Was installed as president of Bolivia at sixty-one years of age, on August 12, 1909, along with his 2 vice presidents: Macario Pinilla Vargas (first vice-presidency) and Juan Misael Saracho (second vice-presidency). His government was one of the most prosperous in the republican history of Bolivia, since it enjoyed a budget surplus and a context of tranquility, despite the mining crisis of 1908. He created

576-460: Was signed in La Paz on 17 September 1909. With this treaty, the countries of Peru and Bolivia ended a border dispute, which had earlier almost led to war between them. During previous negotiations, both parties accepted the arbitration of Argentine President José Figueroa Alcorta , agreeing on making modifications. The Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Solón Polo, countersigned the treaty. As such,

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