It is the name of more than 40 geographical places (including an asteroid) including Bolivia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Ecuador, Philippines, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Honduras, Mexico, USA, Paraguay; but the most important city is the capital of the department of La Paz and seat of the Bolivian government whose official name is Nuestra Señora de La Paz, and in Quechua and Aymara is Chuqiyapu. 2º_ 'La Paz' is a comedy by Aristophanes (V century to . C . ) that ironizes about the Peloponnesian War.