History of rail transport in Bolivia
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History of rail transport in Bolivia
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- This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series The history of rail transport in Bolivia began in the 1870s after almost three decades of failed efforts to build railroads to integrate the country, mining was the driving force for the construction of railways. The need to transport saltpeter to the coast triggered the first railway lines in Bolivia. It was the silver mining, however, that drove the construction of a railway from the Pacific coast to the high plateau dur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Bolivia
date created:
2017-06-18T11:27:43Z
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2024-09-14T12:51:52Z
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