Qué hay en La Paz, Bolivia, a lo largo del año

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Festival

  Alasitas

  24 Ene – 15 FebGran festival

  The fair of miniatures opens at noon on 24 January and runs for weeks: you buy a tiny house, a tiny truck or a tiny degree certificate, have it blessed, and wait a year. It takes over the parks. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Altiplano rainy season (1 Dic – 31 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Carnaval and the ch'alla, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Carnaval and the ch'alla

  13–18 FebCarnavalCierres

  Two national holidays, water bombs in the street for days beforehand and the ch'alla, when households bless the house with alcohol and streamers. Offices and many restaurants shut for the week. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Alasitas (24 Ene – 15 Feb), Altiplano rainy season (1 Dic – 31 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Holy Week walk to Copacabana, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Holy Week walk to Copacabana

  18 Mar – 25 Abr · normalmenteTemporada de peregrinaciónMucha gente

  Thousands of pilgrims set out from La Paz and El Alto on Holy Wednesday to walk about 140 km to the shrine on Lake Titicaca by Good Friday. Buses to Copacabana fill and the lakeside town is packed that weekend. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Carnaval and the ch'alla (13–18 Feb), Altiplano rainy season (1 Dic – 31 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Holy Week walk to Copacabana

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Holy Week walk to Copacabana (18 Mar – 25 Abr (normalmente))

Concurrido — Fiesta del Gran Poder

• Temporada

  Altiplano dry season

  1 May – 30 Sep · normalmente

  Bright still days, hard frost overnight and the Illimani in view from most of the city. It is the reliable half of the year and the only sensible window for the Cordillera Real.

• Festival

  Fiesta del Gran Poder

  20 May – 20 Jun · normalmenteGran festivalMucha genteCierres

  Tens of thousands of dancers in heavy costume take the streets for a full day, at nearly 3,700 metres, in the biggest folkloric entrada of the year. The date moves with Trinity and is announced late. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Fiesta del Gran Poder, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Aymara New Year

  21 JunGran festival

  The winter solstice is a national holiday and the sunrise is met at Tiwanaku and at a dozen sites around the city. It is bitterly cold at dawn and the buses out leave around midnight. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Altiplano dry season (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)), Fiesta del Gran Poder (20 May – 20 Jun (normalmente))

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Altiplano dry season (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Concurrido — Independence Day

• Festivo

  Independence Day

  5–7 AgoFiesta nacionalCierresMucha gente

  6 August is Bolivia's national day: schoolchildren, civic groups and the military parade around the main square, flags hang from every building, and banks, offices and many shops close. Streets in the centre are closed for the parades. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Altiplano dry season (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Altiplano dry season (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Festival

  La Paz founding anniversary

  15–25 Oct · normalmenteGran festival

  The city marks its 1548 founding on 20 October with civic acts at Plaza Alonso de Mendoza and an open-air runway show of chola pacena dress at Plaza Tejada Sorzano around the same days. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Todos Santos, Fiesta de las Natitas

• Festival

  Todos Santos

  1–2 NovFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  Families build home altars for their dead with t'antawawa bread babies, sugarcane and sweets on 1 November, then carry them to the cemeteries on the 2nd, when the Cementerio General fills with music and food. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Fiesta de las Natitas

  8 NovGran festivalMucha gente

  On 8 November devotees bring decorated human skulls to the Cementerio General to be blessed, crowned with flowers and offered coca and cigarettes. Visitors can watch; ask before photographing anyone. Fuente ↗

Tranquilo — vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus peores meses por clima

• Temporada

  Altiplano rainy season

  1 Dic – 31 Mar · normalmenteMonzónRiesgo

  Rain and hail arrive most afternoons and the steep streets run as rivers; the worst weeks bring mudslides on the slopes above the city and shut a road or two. Mornings are usually clear.