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{{short description|Capital of Bolivia}}
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*Pre-Hispanic Times: Charcas
*September 29, 1538 (official): La Plata de la Nueva Toledo (City of The Silver of the New Toledo)
*August 6, 1826: Sucre (Capital Section)
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'''Sucre''' ({{IPA-es|ˈsukɾe|lang}}) is the ''de jure'' capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of {{cvt|2790|m}}. This relatively high altitude gives the city a subtropical highland climate with cool temperatures year-round.

Its pre-Columbian name was '''Chuquisaca'''; during the [[Place:Spanish Empire|Spanish Empire]] it was called in different periods as '''La Plata''' and '''Chuquisaca'''. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the city of Chuquisaca had its own autonomy with respect to the Inca Empire (the Charcas were the only people that did not pay the ransom for the Inca captive). Today, the region is of predominantly Quechua background, with some Aymara communities and influences.

Sucre holds major national importance and is an educational and government center, as well as the location of the Bolivian Supreme Court. Its pleasant climate and low crime rates have made the city popular amongst foreigners and Bolivians alike. Notably, Sucre contains one of the best preserved Hispanic colonial and republican historic city centres in the Western Hemisphere - similar to cities such as Cuzco and [[Place:Quito|Quito]]. This architectural heritage and the millenarian history of the Charcas region has led to Sucre's designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city has held an important place in Bolivian history from its place as an important center in the Real Audencia de Charcas, and later as the first capital of Bolivia before the fall of silver's importance as a global mineral commodity. Some regional tension remains from the historical transfer of capital functions to [[Place:La Paz|La Paz]], and even today the issue features an important role in local culture and political ideology.

==History==
On November 30, 1538, Sucre was founded under the name ''Ciudad de la Plata de la Nueva Toledo'' (City of Silver of New Toledo) by Pedro Anzures, Marqués de Campo Redondo. In 1559, the Spanish King Philip II established the ''Audiencia de Charcas'' in La Plata with authority over an area which covers what is now Paraguay, southeastern Peru, northern Chile and Argentina, and much of Bolivia. The ''Real Audiencia of Charcas'' was a subdivision of the Viceroyalty of Peru until 1776, when it was transferred to the newly created Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. In 1601 the Recoleta Monastery was founded by the Franciscans. In 1609, an archbishopric was founded in the city. In 1624 St Francis Xavier University of Chuquisaca was founded.

[[File:Chuquisaca city in 1615 by Guamán Poma.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Chuquisaca -as was its colonial name- in 1615 by the Inca painter Guamán Poma in his work "Nueva corónica y buen gobierno". Royal Library, Denmark.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://poma.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/1069/en/text/?open=idm656|page=1069|year=1615|author=Guamán Poma|via=Royal Library, Denmark website|title=Guaman Poma, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615)}}</ref>]]
Very much a Spanish city during the colonial era, the narrow streets of the city centre are organised in a grid, reflecting the Andalusian culture that is embodied in the architecture of the city's great houses and numerous convents and churches. Sucre remains the seat of the Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia, and a common sight is members of religious orders dressed in traditional habit. For much of its colonial history, Sucre's temperate climate was preferred by the Spanish royalty and wealthy families involved in silver trade coming from Potosí. Sucre's University ([[Organization:University of Saint Francis Xavier|Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca]]) is one of the oldest universities in the new world.
[[File:Mujeres aymara con siku y caja - flickr-photos-micahmacallen-85524669 (CC-BY-SA).jpg|thumb|right|250px|Festival time in Sucre]]
On May 25, 1809, the Bolivian independence movement was started with the ringing of the bell of the Basilica of Saint Francisco. This bell was rung to the point of breakage, but it can still be found in the Basilica today: it is one of the most precious relics of the city.
Until the 19th century, La Plata was the judicial, religious and cultural centre of the region. It was proclaimed provisional capital of the newly independent Alto Peru (later, Bolivia) in July 1826.<ref name=DicGeo>{{Cite book |publisher=Impr. "Bolívar" de M. Pizarro |last=Sucre. |first=Sociedad Geográfica |title=Diccionario geográfico del Departamento de Chuquisaca: contiene datos geográficos, históricos y estadisticos |year=1903 |pages=296–97}}</ref> On July 12, 1839, President José Miguel de Velasco proclaimed a law naming the city as the capital of Bolivia, and renaming it in honor of the revolutionary leader Antonio José de Sucre.<ref name=DicGeo/> After the economic decline of Potosí and its silver industry, the Bolivian seat of government was moved from Sucre to [[Place:La Paz|La Paz]] in 1898. Many {{who|date=October 2011}} argue Sucre was the location of the beginning of the Latin American independence movement against Spain. From that point of view, Bolivia was the last Spanish imperial territory in South America to gain its independence, in 1825. In 1991, Sucre became a [[Organization:UNESCO|UNESCO]] World Heritage Site.

==Government==
Together with [[Place:La Paz|La Paz]], Sucre is one of two governmental centers of Bolivia: It is the seat of the judiciary, where the Supreme Court of Justice is located. As designated in the Constitution of Bolivia, Sucre is the true capital of the nation, while La Paz is the seat of government. Sucre is also the capital city of the department of Chuquisaca. The government of the City of Sucre is divided into [[Social:Executive (government)|executive]] and [[Social:Legislature|legislative]] branches. The Mayor of Sucre is the executive head of the city government, elected for a term of five years by general election. The legislative branch consists of the Municipal Council, which elects a President, Vice President and Secretary from a group of eleven members.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

The mayor of Sucre is Enrique Leaño of the Movement for Socialism, who defeated Horacio Poppe in elections held on March 3, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=El MAS gana en Sucre y Enrique Leaño es el nuevo alcalde |url=https://www.opinion.com.bo/articulo/pais/mas-gana-sucre-enrique-leano-es-nuevo-alcalde/20210321235441812562.html |url-status=live |access-date=2021-05-05 |website=Opinión Bolivia |date= March 21, 2021|language=es |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505144455/https://www.opinion.com.bo/articulo/pais/mas-gana-sucre-enrique-leano-es-nuevo-alcalde/20210321235441812562.html }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%"
|-
|'''Date Began'''
! '''Date Ended'''
! '''Mayor'''
! '''Party'''
! '''Notes'''
|-
|
|February 7, 2000
|Germán Gutiérrez Santier
|MNR, PS1
|<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2020-11-22 |title=Ningún alcalde de Sucre cumplió su mandato completo en 20 años |work=Correo del Sur |url=https://correodelsur.com/local/20201122_ningun-alcalde-de-sucre-cumplio-su-mandato-completo-en-20-anos.html |access-date=2021-05-05 |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505144730/https://correodelsur.com/local/20201122_ningun-alcalde-de-sucre-cumplio-su-mandato-completo-en-20-anos.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|February 7, 2000
|January 8, 2003
|Fidel Herrera Ressini
|MBL
|Resigned in intra-party move.<ref name=":0" />
|-
|January 8, 2003
|October 5, 2004
|Aydeé Nava Andrade
|MBL
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|October 5, 2004
|January 10, 2005
|Armando Pereira
|MNR
|Interim mayor while Nava ran in election.<ref name=":0" />
|-
| January 10, 2005
| Nov 2008
| Aydeé Nava Andrade
| MBL
|Elected in 2004.
|-
| Nov 2008
| May 30, 2010
| Hugo Loayza
| MBL
| Assumed office after Nava was indicted on corruption charges.<ref name=":0" />
|-
| May 30, 2010
| June 18, 2010
| Jaime Barrón Poveda
| PAÍS
| Elected in regional election on April 4, 2010
|-
| June 22, 2010
| January 10, 2011
| Verónica Berríos
| MAS-IPSP
| Designated as interim Mayor by Sucre's Council in Resolution 335/10 after Barrón was indicted on charges of organizing the violence of 24 May 2008,<ref name="FalloR">{{Cite news |url=http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20110128/fallo-judicial-restituye-a-alcaldesa-de-sucre_110589_217524.html |title=Fallo judicial restituye a Alcaldesa de Sucre |date=2011-01-28 |work=Los Tiempos [byline: Correo del Sur] |access-date=2011-01-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130022245/http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20110128/fallo-judicial-restituye-a-alcaldesa-de-sucre_110589_217524.html |archive-date=January 30, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> with the support of MAS, New Citizen Alternative, and Domingo Martínez.<ref name=Ecandalo>{{Cite news |title=Escándalo frena elección edil y abre paso a negociaciones |work=Correo del Sur |access-date=2011-12-13 |date=2011-06-02 |url=http://www.correodelsur.com/2011/0602/36.php |archive-date=April 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426050753/http://www.correodelsur.com/2011/0602/36.php |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| January 10, 2011
| January 27, 2011
| José Santos Romero
| MAS-IPSP
| Designated as interim Mayor by Sucre's Council in Resolution 03/11,<ref name=FalloR/> with three MAS votes (but not Berríos' alternate), four PAÍS votes, and that of Lourdes Millares.<ref name=Ecandalo/>
|-
| July 27, 2011
| January 31, 2012
| Verónica Berríos
| MAS-IPSP
| Restored to office when the Guarantees Tribunal of Chuquisaca's Superior Court of Justice annulled Resolution 03/11<ref name=FalloR/>
|-
| January 31, 2012
|May 25, 2015
| Moisés Torres Chivé
| Renewing Freedom and Democracy (LIDER)
| Elected in 2011 special election<ref>{{Cite news |title=Torres ya es Alcalde de Sucre |work=Correo del Sur |access-date = 2012-02-06 |date=2012-01-31 |url=http://www.correodelsur.com/2012/0131/15.php |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120204022826/http://correodelsur.com/2012/0131/15.php |archive-date = February 4, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
|-
|May 25, 2015
| November 13, 2019
| Iván Arciénega
| MAS-IPSP
| Elected in 2015 municipal election.<ref name="ArcTriunfa">{{Cite news |last=Donoso |first=Yuvert |title=Arciénega triunfa; le falta mayoría - La Razón |edition=1 April 2015 |work=La Razón |url=http://www.la-razon.com/nacional/animal_electoral/Subnacionales-Arcienega-triunfa-falta-mayoria_0_2244975522.html |access-date=2015-05-08 |archive-date=August 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829024747/http://www.la-razon.com/nacional/animal_electoral/Subnacionales-Arcienega-triunfa-falta-mayoria_0_2244975522.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Resigned in 2019 national political crisis.<ref name=":0" />
|-
|November 14, 2019
|May 3, 2021
|Rosario López
|FRI
|Designated as interim Mayor by Sucre's Council.<ref name=":0" />
|-
|May 3, 2021
|Incumbent
|Enrique Leaño
|MAS-IPSP
|Elected in 2021 municipal election
|}
The Municipal Council is the legislative branch of the government of the municipality of Sucre, the constitutional capital of Bolivia. The council consists of eleven elected members, and it elects its own President, Vice President and Secretary. The members of the municipal council elected on May 3, 2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cinco fuerzas políticas conformarán el Concejo Municipal de Sucre |url=https://correodelsur.com/local/20210309_cinco-fuerzas-politicas-conformaran-el-concejo-municipal-de-sucre.html |access-date=2021-05-05 |website=Correo del Sur |language=es |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205634/https://correodelsur.com/local/20210309_cinco-fuerzas-politicas-conformaran-el-concejo-municipal-de-sucre.html |url-status=live }}</ref> are:

*Oscar Sandy (MAS)
*Yolanda Barrios (MAS)
*Rodolfo Avilés (MAS)
*Guadalupe Fernández (MAS)
*Eduardo Lora (R-2025)
*Melisa Cortés (R-2025)
*Antonio Pino (R-2025)
*Carmen Rosa Torres (R-2025)
*Jenny Montaño (C-A)
*Gonzalo Pallares (CST)
*Edwin González (Unidos)

==Geography and territorial organization==
[[File:Vista_panoramica_de_la_ciudad_de_Sucre.png|thumb|center|280px|Sucre, Bolivia]]
Sucre is divided into eight numbered districts: the first five of these are urban districts, while Districts 6, 7, and 8 are rural districts. Each is administered by a Sub-Mayor ({{lang-es|Subalcalde|links=no}}), appointed by the Mayor of Sucre. The rural districts include numerous rural communities outside the urban area.

Sucre is served by Alcantari Airport, situated {{cvt|30|km|0}} to the South.

===Climate===
Sucre has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb),<ref name="Climate-Data.org">{{Cite web |url=http://en.climate-data.org/location/3849/ |title=Climate: Sucre - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table |publisher=Climate-Data.org |access-date=2014-01-05 |archive-date=August 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821160357/https://en.climate-data.org/location/3849/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with mild temperatures year round. Rain generally falls in summer thunderstorms.

The highest record temperature was {{cvt|34.7|C}}  while the lowest record temperature was {{cvt|-6|C}}
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==The City of Four Names==
[[File:20170805_Bolivia_1214_Sucre_sRGB_(26204168039).jpg|thumb|center|280px|Sucre, the capital of Bolivia.]]
Each of the well known names represent a specific era of the city's history:

*''Charcas'' was the indigenous name for the place upon which the Spaniards built the colonial city.
*''La Plata'' was the name given to the emerging Hispanic city of privilege and honor.
*The name ''Chuquisaca'' was bestowed upon the city during the independence era.
*''Sucre'' honors the great marshal of the Battle of Ayacucho (December 9, 1824), Antonio José de Sucre.
*"La Ciudad Blanca" is a nickname that was bestowed upon the city because many of the colonial style houses and structures are painted white.

==Sports==
Sucre has the most important sport facilities in Bolivia, and the most practiced sport in the city is football. Sucre has the second-biggest football and Olympic stadium in the country, the Estadio Patria. As of the 2019 Apertura, the 2008 champion club Universitario de Sucre was relegated from the Bolivian professional league, leaving the city without a first-division team.

Other sports are also practiced, such as swimming at la Piscina Bolivariana, basketball at numerous courts around the city, as well as taekwondo, kung fu, volleyball, tennis and racquetball.{{cn|date=January 2023}}

==Economy==
The Mercado Campesino marketplace is the largest in Sucre.<ref name="Cainco">Cainco Chuquisaca, Camara De Industria, Comercio, Sucre Bolivia.</ref>

==Education==
Sucre is home to the second oldest public university in the Americas, the [[Organization:University of San Francisco Xavier|Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca]]; often abbreviated USFX. The university draws students both nationally and internationally, and different departments can be found scattered around the city. Degree areas at USFX include law, political science, medicine, odontology, chemistry, business administration, financial sciences, and more.<ref>{{cite web |title=Facultades |url=https://www.usfx.bo/principal/facultades/ |website=Universidad de San Francisco Xavier |access-date=December 5, 2019 |archive-date=December 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218023808/http://www.usfx.bo/principal/facultades/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The city also features other academic institutions such as a campus of the private university Universidad Privada del Valle, also known as Univalle, the National Teachers School (Escuela Nacional de Maestros "Mariscal Sucre"), the Universidad Privada Domingo Savio, and the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

==Architecture==
The city of Sucre contains many old and classic buildings.

===The House of Freedom ===
[[File:Freedomhouse.jpg|thumb|200px|View of House of Freedom from the main square]]
[[File:The 25th of May Plaza.jpg|thumb|200x200px|May 25th square]]
Built in 1621, it is perhaps the most important building of the nation. The republic was founded in this building by Simón Bolívar who wrote the Bolivian Constitution.<br />
The "Salón de la Independencia" houses the Bolivian Declaration of Independence.

===National Library===
Built on the same year of the foundation of the Republic, it is the first and the most important historical, bibliographical and documentation center of the country. The National Library has documents that date from 16th century.<ref>Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia, Anuario de Estudios Bolivianos, Archivisticos y Bibliograficos. No.14 - 2008, p.301ff</ref>

===Metropolitan Cathedral===
Built between 1559 and 1712, the cathedral has the "Museo Catedraliceo" which is the first and most important religious museum of the country. The "Pinacoteca" has a vast collection of paintings by Colonial and Republican masters and also by Europeans such as Bitti, Fourchaudt and Van Dyck. The Cathedral contains a vast amount of jewelry made of gold, silver and gemstones.

===Archbishop's Palace===
Built in 1609, was an important religious and historic institution during colonial times.

=== Departmental Autonomous Government of Chuquisaca===
[[File:20170806 Bolivia 1293 crop Sucre sRGB (24128466548).jpg|thumb|200px|View of the Chuquisaca Governorship from the main square]]

One of the best buildings of republican architecture, this was completed in 1896. It was the first Palace of Government of Bolivia but when the government was moved to La Paz it became the Chuquisaca Governorship Palace.

===Supreme Court of Justice===
On July 16, 1827, the Supreme Court of the Nation was established. Its first president was Dr. Manuel Maria Urcullo. Others prominent in its history include Dr. Pantaleon Dalence, who was twice president of the Supreme Court and through his qualities became known as the 'Father of Bolivian Justice'. This institution was installed in several places before moving to its current building. It was designed in the neoclassical style under the canons of French academicism and was inaugurated on May 25, 1945.

===General Cemetery===
Some of the areas date from the late nineteenth century. Ornate mausoleums, tombs and gardens with magnificent old trees populate the space that is home to the graves of important people in the arts, sciences and the history both of Bolivia and of Latin America. Because of the tranquility offered by the site, many students choose to study here.{{cn|date=January 2023}}

===Churches and Convents===
[[File:Casi de noche en la catedral.jpg|thumb|Plaza Principal, Main Square, Sucre]]
[[File:Catedral_-_Sucre.jpg|thumb|Sucre Cathedral]]
*San Felipe Nery
*San Francisco
*La Recoleta
*Santa Teresa
*Santa Clara
*Santo Domingo
*San Lazaro (The oldest church in the country and ex-Cathedral of Sucre)
*San Sebastian
*Iglesia de la Merced
*San Agustín
*Santa Mónica
*Santa Barbara
*San Miguel

===Chapels===
*Loreto's Chapel
*Virgen de Guadalupe

===Transportation===
The city is served by Alcantarí Airport with multiple domestic destinations on three commercial airlines.

==Twin towns – sister cities==
*{{flagicon|ARG}} La Plata, Argentina<ref>{{cite web |title=De Sucre a Jiujiang y pasando por Bologna estas son las ciudades hermanas de La Plata |url=https://www.0221.com.ar/nota/2019-2-2-8-12-0-de-sucre-a-jiujiang-y-pasando-por-bologna-estas-son-las-ciudades-hermanas-de-la-plata |website=0221.com.ar |publisher=0221 |language=es |date=2019-02-02 |access-date=2021-12-18 |archive-date=December 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216200208/https://www.0221.com.ar/nota/2019-2-2-8-12-0-de-sucre-a-jiujiang-y-pasando-por-bologna-estas-son-las-ciudades-hermanas-de-la-plata |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagicon|ARG}} San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina<ref>{{cite web |title=Hermanamiento de Ciudades |url=https://www.smt.gob.ar/programas/13/hermanamiento-de-ciudades |website=smt.gob.ar |publisher=San Miguel de Tucumán |language=es |access-date=2021-12-18 |archive-date=June 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608225822/https://www.smt.gob.ar/programas/13/hermanamiento-de-ciudades |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
*Antonio José de Sucre
*Charca people
*[[Place:La Paz|La Paz]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Wikivoyage-inline|Sucre}}
*[https://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=566 UNESCO World Heritage Site]





[[Category:Capitals in South America]]

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