Historedia
Episode 1 of 1

Founding of La Paz

When
20 October 1548
Where
Site of the Inca settlement Laja
Part of
Founding of La Paz

Alonso de Mendoza founded the city on 20 October 1548 at the site of Laja, naming it Nuestra Señora de La Paz to commemorate peace.

The city was established as a connecting point for commercial routes between Potosí, Oruro, and Lima. Juan de Vargas was appointed as the first mayor. The name honored the restoration of peace after the insurrection against the first viceroy of Peru.

Sources

  1. La Paz Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-13

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.