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Isallavi (also: Isayavi or Isallawi) is a village in the Bolivian Oruro Department. It is the birthplace of Evo Morales, Bolivia's former President. Isallavi has 33 inhabitants (2012) and is situated in the Orinoca Canton, a district of Andamarca Municipality in Sud Carangas Province.
Isallavi es una localidad de Bolivia perteneciente al municipio de Santiago de Andamarca de la Provincia de Sud Carangas en el Departamento de Oruro. Está ubicada a 162 km al sur de la ciudad de Oruro, la capital departamental, y a 15 km al oeste del lago Poopó .
4 days ago · Evo Morales (born October 26, 1959, Isallavi, Bolivia) is a Bolivian labour leader who served as president of Bolivia (2006–19). A member of the Aymara people, Morales was Bolivia’s first president of indigenous descent.
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President Evo Morales was born in Bolivia on October 26, 1959, in a poor and forgotten community in the Bolivian Altiplano (high plain) called Isallavi, which is part of the Orinoca parish near Lake Poopó in Oruro.
Early life and activism Childhood, education, and military service: 1959–1978 Morales was born in the small rural village of Isallawi in Orinoca Canton, part of western Bolivia's Oruro Department, on 26 October 1959, to an Aymara family. One of seven children born to Dionisio Morales Choque and his wife María Ayma Mamani, only he and two siblings, Esther and Hugo, survived past childhood. His mother almost died from a postpartum haemorrhage following his birth. In keeping with Aymara ...
Evo Morales is a Bolivian politician and labor leader. As a member of the Aymara indigenous group, he was Bolivia’s first Indian president (2006–19). Morales enacted many reforms that helped the indigenous and poor, but he was forced to resign in 2019 after refusing to step down from the post.
Isallavi (also: Isayavi or Isallawi) is a village in the Bolivian Oruro Department. It is the birthplace of Evo Morales, Bolivia's former President. Isallavi has 33 inhabitants (2012) and is situated in the Orinoca Canton, a district of Andamarca Municipality in Sud Carangas Province.
