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:''This article is about a historical region now in Bolivia. 'Alto Perú' is also the name of a shanty town area just outside Lima, Peru (see Asociacion SOLAC).''
'Upper Peru' (Spanish: ''Alto Perú'') was the region in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata comprising the Government of Los Chiquitos (Potosí, La Paz, Cochabamba, and Charcas (since renamed Sucre)).
Following independence, the country was renamed Bolivia in honour of Simón Bolívar.