Curiosities
- La Paz is the highest seat of government city in the world.
- El Alto International Airport is the highest international airport in the world (13,325 feet above mean sea level). Passengers may notice the drop in pressure when the aircraft doors are opened.
- Water boils in La Paz at 88 °C (190 °F).
- La Paz has the highest certified olympic stadium. FIFA issued a rule forbidding the organization of official matches in stadiums with an altitude of more than 2,500 metres because players may be at greater health risk due to decreased oxygen pressure, but excluded La Paz's Hernando Siles Stadium from that regulation after intense lobbying by Bolivian authorities .
- The La Paz central bus station was designed by Gustav Eiffel who also built the Eiffel Tower.
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