"El Consulado" history

The historic house where we are located is a vestige of one of the greatest times of the economic boom in La Paz, when the trams were in progress and the city had only 80,000 inhabitants. Its strong walls, post-modernist architecture and furniture has motivated us to learn a little of its history. That’s how after "inquiring" some historical documents; we learned that Vicente Ochoa acquired this property of Mr. José María Urcullo, who was a remarkable Bolivian writer of the constitution of the young Republic of Bolivia in 1825. The house had several owners, Mrs. Rosa Cusicanqui and years after the property was ceded to the Salesians of Don Bosco, later recovered by the state for public auction in 1911. Mrs. Leonor de Urioste was awarded and finally she decided to sell it to Mr. Paul de Rada in 1925. That year he decided to build a huge mansion that was the Consulate of Panama in the early decades of the twentieth century. In 2006 we had the opportunity to know that the mansion was on sale and after visiting it we were convinced that we wanted to make a rescue of the old house and turn it into what is now the Restaurant "El Consulado" our selected handicrafts shop and the offices of "Topas Travel Bolivia".