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Word: aymara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whiff of oxygen during stopovers. Yet 4,000,000 people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend brief lives struggling to scratch a living from the stony soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: The High, Hard Land | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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