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THE CHRIST OF CONCORDIA

1. INTRODUCTION
The Christ of Concordia is a giant monumental statue of Jesus Christ which is
located on the San Pedro Mountain Cochabamba Bolivia. It is height of 265 meters
above the city the statue measures 34.20 meters of height on a pedestal of 6.24
meters with a height total of 40.44 meters.

The statue is slightly smaller that the statue of statue of Christ king in Poland.

The Christ of Concordia is one of the most tourist places in Bolivia, located on the
San Pedro, Christ of Concordia, meaning the geographical, political and social
inclusiveness that the city and the department Cochabamba, besides representing
the hospitality of the people of Cochabamba.

To perpetuate the memory of the visit of Papa Juan Paul II and the teaching of
peace, understanding and taught harmony at that time by the Vicar of Christ, at the
initiative of factory labor leader Lucio Lopez, it was agreed to raise at the summit of
the hill of San Pedro, a monumental sculptor and beautiful work of Christ of the
Concordia designed and conducted by the famous sculptors and architects
Cochabamba, the brothers Walter and Cesar Terrazas.

2. JUSTIFICATION
I chose this topic because I have a lot of interest about the Christ of Concordia is
something that is very close to my house I see the Christ of Concord every day and
i dont know its history. It is one of the greatest symbols of Bolivia and one of the
largest in the world

2.1. JUSTIFICATION GENERAL

This is one of those subjects that it is necessary to know its history and the
impact towards the foreign tourists only by general culture a tourist symbol as
great as it is the Christ of the Concordia and it is not a boring subject is very
interesting you learn a lot.

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3. PROBLEMS
Why Christ of Concordia is the greatest symbol of tourism in Cochabamba?
Why did the artist choose to make an identical statue to Brazil?

4. HYPOTHESIS
The Christ of concordia was built more before the Christ of Brazil
The Christ Is the touristc place more visited in Bolivia

5. OBJECTIVES
5.1. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Christ of the importance of the Christ of Concordia in culture
cochabambinas culture.
5.2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
To know the opinion of tourists to see the Christ of Concordia.
To know the causes of the popularity of Christ of Concordia.

6. METHODOLOGICAL DESING
The methodology that will be used in this dissertation will be informative with the
objective of informing the readers about the Christ of Concordia to know a little
more of its history and some of its characteristics.

7. REFERENTIAL FRAMEWORK
In the theoretical framework we will talk about seven important points where the
Christ of Concord is located, how many minutes from the center is the Christ we
will talk about its history, its importance, because it was built, some characteristics
its size, how much the construction cost, how much Time took the construction, In
which you can arrive also speak of other statues like the Christ of Brazil, the Christ
of Poland and Virgin of the Socavn.

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8. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

8.1. WHERE IS IT LOCATED

It is located in San Pedro Hill, or mountain of San Pedro, in the eastern part of the
city, bordering this hillside area in the west, Rubn Dario Avenue, just 20 minutes
from the center of Cochabamba. The east side of this mountain range borders with
the municipality of Sacaba. At the top of it, more than 200 meters. From height
from the city, the white colossus of reinforced concrete rises proudly and steel on a
circular base of 6 meters of height. The statue of the Christ of Concordia, as a
lookout of the city and warmly welcome all visitors, keeps their arms open, pointing
to them north and south of the city, with a frontal look towards the west of the city.
[1]

8.2. HISTORY
It was a group of parishioners who promoted the construction of the work, ten
years later, the support and solidarity contributions of several Cochabamba
institutions and the Catholic Church, managed to conclude the main icon of unity in
Cochabamba, especially to recall the visit of Juan Pablo II to Cochabamba in 1988.
Its construction began in 1987 and was inaugurated in 1990. The name of
Concordia refers to the integrative, geographic, political and social character of the
city and the Cochabamba department with the Other cities of Bolivia, also
represents the hospitality of the Cochabamba people and the protection of Christ
over our city.

The direction of the work was entrusted to the artist and sculptor Cochabamba
Cesar Terrazas Pardo, who with his team took seven years to finish the colossus in
1994.

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This statue was designed by Csar and Walter Terrazas Pardo, who were inspired
by the Brazilian Christ the Redeemer to create this work, which is the largest of any
type in the Southern Hemisphere of the world, and rises 265 meters above the city
of Cochabamba , Being in general to more than 2,800 meters of height above the
level of the sea, and the visitors can see it from any place of this population. [2]

8.3. CHARACTERISTICS
The Christ of Concordia is considered the largest statue of Jesus that exists.
Surpassing even that of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. The size of
the body of the statue from the feet to the tip of the head is 34 meters. The circular
base or pedestal measures 6 meters. In total the colossus exceeds 40 meters.

The view at the top is of incredible beauty to see the panorama of the city of
Cochabamba in all its splendor, overlooking the lagoon Alalay towards the south
side and to the back of the statue, the municipality of Sacaba.

At the top of the hill there is a viewpoint and several services offered to travelers
such as taking pictures, viewing with long-views, kiosks, meals, etc.

In the base of the Christ there is a small museum that shows environments of
exhibition of photos and characteristics of the work. From here also begin the steps
that, in the manner of a snail and quite narrow, allow to ascend level by level to the
interior of the statue until the height of the arms. Inside the statue are small
windows from which you can see the city from the top and take pictures. [3]

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The plaque that is seen at the base of the monument, details the precise data of
the image:

Starting date: July 12, 1987

Date of concussion: 20 November 1994

Height of the image: 34.20 m.

Pedestal height: 6,24 m.

Total height: 40.44 m.

Total weight (approx.): 2,200 t.

Head height: 4.64 m.

Head weight: 11,850 kg.

Distance between hands: 32.87 m.

Sculptors brothers Walter and Cesar Terrazas.

8.4. TRANSPORTATION
To climb to the top of San Pedro Hill, there are three options:

By car, along a road that winds through the hills of San Pedro called Av. De la
Concordia. From the park of La autonoma the taxis that run the way to the parking
lot of cars that are a few meters from the top come out.

The cable car, a work that is the pride of the Cochabamba, allows you to get up
and down in a few minutes the top of San Pedro. Part of the Park of La Autonoma
to the top.

On foot, for the more than 1000 steps that exist that depart from Av. Rubn Dario
to the top. If you want to use this route is better to make the route down, unless
you are in good physical condition to upload it, so that you have full view of the city
when you go down and can take advantage to take pictures. For safety, it is not
advisable to travel this long stretch at dusk or at night, preferably only in broad
daylight. If you want to go up in the evenings to take pictures or any other reason,

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you can request free police escort to the Tourist Police located in 14th of
September Square

8.5. OTHER STATUES

8.5.1. VIRGIN OF THE SOCAVN

The Monument to the Virgin of the Socavon new sculpture of February 1, 2013
located at 3,845 meters above sea level, and located in Santa Brbara hill, west of
the high plateau city of Oruro in Bolivia.3

The sculpture measures a total of 45.4 meters, of which 8.60 meters are destined
to the base in which a chapel with capacity for 80 people will function.

The crown of the Virgin was worked in aluminum plates, an interior iron structure
reticulated for greater resistance to corrosion, weighs 500 kilos, has a height of
4.80 meters with a diameter of 4 meters, carries crystal incrustations,
manufactured In resin, to obtain a replica suitable to those of the image that is in
the Sanctuary.

At the top has a lightning rod and safety lighting, to be sighted from the airplanes or
helicopters.

The great sculpture of the Virgin of the Socavon weighs 1,500 tons and has eight
internal floors. $ 1.3 million was invested in its construction. [4]

8.5.2. CRISTO REDENTOR

Considered the central attraction of Rio de Janeiro, Cristo Redentor is the largest
art deco work in the world with 38 meters of height and a weight of 1,200 tons.
With outstretched arms, the image of Christ seems to be protecting the city that
never sleeps.

This impressive statue is located at the top of Cerro del Corcovado, 710 meters
above sea level. It represents the faith and sympathy of the people of Rio de
Janeiro, so this colossus promises to be, with more than 80 years of history, one of
the main tourist attractions during the development of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
and the 2016 Olympic Games.

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Before 1921 the viewpoint on Corcovado hill was already one of the tourist
attractions of Rio de Janeiro, including the Corcovado Railway, which had been
inaugurated in 1884 by Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

The idea of a religious monument in Rio de Janeiro was born in 1859, with Catholic
presbyter Pedro Maria Boss and Princess Isabel of Brazil. However, the idea did
not materialize during the Empire of Brazil. It resumed in 1921, when the centenary
of the Independence of Brazil was approaching. Hector da Silva Costa was
delegated to the execution of the wave, and the statue was made by the French
sculptor Paul Landowski. [5]

8.5.3. STATUE OF CHRIST THE KING

The Statue of Christ the King is located in wiebodzin (Poland). It is the image of
Christ highest of the world, with its 36 meters being that its overlaid crown has a
height of 3 meters surpassing the Christ of the Concord of Cochabamba (Bolivia)
that is 34,20 m of height without adding the pedestal of 6 , 24m; The Christ King of
Cali (Colombia), which is 35 m high and 5 m high; And the Christ Redeemer
Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) that has 30 m. It was finished building on
Saturday November 6, 2010 and was installed on a hill about 16 m high.

Like the Christ of Rio de Janeiro and the Christ of Concord in Bolivia, the statue of
Swiebodzin is completely white, with the only difference being that it has a golden
crown of a height of three meters.

The last elements of the statue, the head and the arms, were installed with the aid
of a huge crane sent especially to the place since a first attempt, the previous
week, was finished with a failure because the crane lacked the necessary power.
It is estimated that the total weight of the construction is 440 tons [6]

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9. RESULTS
The Christ of Concordia is the largest symbol of Cochabamba for several reasons
the main is because it is in a very strategic place that you can see almost
everywhere its size also helps.

The sculptor who created the Christ of Concordia was inspired by the Christ of
Brazil but never equaled the Christ of Brazil being smaller than the Christ of
Concordia
The redeeming Christ has many more tourists than the one of Bolivia also the
Christ of Brazil is in one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

10. CONCLUSION

In conclusion that by doing this work I learned much more of the Christ of
Concordia and any person reading my research will understand that the Christ of
Concordia is not only a statue of Christ is a memory of the visit of Papa ll.

Is the second largest statue in the world to do this work I learned that we have
incredible tourist places in Cochabamba and not only in Cochabamba also in
Bolivia and tourists like the Christ of Concordia always hear good comments to
excellent comments of people who never They came to Bolivia.

Incredibly the statue of the Christ of Concordia being larger than that of Brazil
being the second largest statue in the world internationally is nothing compared to
the Christ Redentor.

11. RECOMMENDATIONS
You have to visit the Christ of Concord, all the tourist places of Bolivia and always
investigate or revise some of its history, characteristics, etc

To have a better experience of the place you can discover very important or very
interesting things.

My recommendations to have a better experience of the Christ of Concordia you

have to walk up the stairs another experience is to climb the cable car and last but
less important to get in the car are three very different experiences the dancing
waters in Cochabamba Find in the family park a very good option that has
Cochabamba.

If you liked the Christ of Concordia also you can visit the virgin of the Socavon that
is in Oruro another tourist attraction very interesting.

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12. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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