Christmas holiday (end)
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Wednesday February 1, 2023
School holidays :
Fiesta de la Virgen de Candelaria (lake Titicaca)
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Thursday February 2, 2023
Culture :
Valentine's Day
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Tuesday February 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
Carnival (during a week from this day on)
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Monday February 20, 2023
Secular holiday :
Carnival (second day)
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Tuesday February 21, 2023
Secular holiday :
Regional holiday
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Wednesday February 22, 2023
Secular holiday : in Oruro
Oruro's La Diablada ("Devil's Carnival")
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Saturday February 25, 2023
Culture : Dancing, costumes, parades, drinking for 3 days in Oruro.
Fathers' Day
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Sunday March 19, 2023
cards/flowers :
Day of the Sea
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Thursday March 23, 2023
Culture : Commemorates the loss of the region of Antofagasta to Chile during the Pacific War in the nineteenth century. Antofagasta was the only sea access for Bolivia.
Regional holiday
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Saturday April 1, 2023
Secular holiday : in Potosi
Good Friday
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Friday April 7, 2023
Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.
This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
Children's Day
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Wednesday April 12, 2023
Culture :
Regional holiday
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Saturday April 15, 2023
Secular holiday : in Tarija
Labor Day/May Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Reporter's Day
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Wednesday May 10, 2023
Special Events : En conmemoración de la promulgación de un decreto de 1938, con el que el gobierno de Germán Busch Becerra reivindicaba los derechos de los trabajadores de prensa. Ese día, pero de 1865, era asesinado el periodista Cirilo Barragán Wikipedia
Regional holiday
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Thursday May 25, 2023
Secular holiday : in Chuquisaca
Mother's Day
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Sunday May 28, 2023
cards/flowers :
Corpus Cristi
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Thursday June 8, 2023
Catholic : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Aymara New Year
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Wednesday June 21, 2023
Secular holiday : From 2009
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 30, 2023
School holidays :
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday July 17, 2023
School holidays :
La Paz Day (La Paz only)
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Monday July 17, 2023
Secular holiday :
Independence Day
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Sunday August 6, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by Spain in 1825
Independence Day
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Monday August 7, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by Spain in 1825
Regional holiday
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Saturday August 12, 2023
Secular holiday : In tribute to the Chaco people, commemorating the founding of the Gran Chaco Province in Gran Chaco region only
Regional holiday
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Wednesday August 16, 2023
Catholic : Fiesta de la Virgen de Urkupiña Cochabamba only
Flag Day
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Thursday August 17, 2023
Culture :