Octavio Roca Martinez, exchange student from the Central Bucks Rotary Club, spoke to the Doylestown Rotary Club at our evening meeting of April 6, 2016. Octavio is currently staying with our Yuouth Programs Co-Chair Jo-Anne Atwell. He gave a presentation on his native country of Bolivia. He began by talking about all the natural wonders of Bolivia, including desert, mountains, forest, salt flats, the Green Lagoon, and Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is on the border of Peru and Bolivia, and is the highest navigable lake in the world at 12,507 feet above sea level. He also talked about the pink dolphin, a fresh water dolphin that lives in Bolivia’s rivers and is on the endangered species list.

 

Bolivia has two capitals La Paz and the older city Sucre. La Paz is the administrative capital and home to the executive and legislative branches of government. Sucre is the constitutional capital and home to the judicial branch of government. He explained the politics that led to the naming of the two capitals.

 

Bolivians love to celebrate Carnival which is held the three days before Ash Wednesday. He told us that Bolivians are some of the best partiers in the world!

 

Thank you Octavio for an interesting presentation.