El Dia Ferido de Cochabamba

A school girl in indigenous dress at her school´s fiesta in celebration of Cochabamba´s anniversary, September 14. On this day in 1814, Francisco de Rivero, Esteban Arze y Melchor Guzmán Quitón and their fellow Cochabambinos rose up against the Spanish, proclaiming the revolution that would ultimately win independence 15 years later.