The municipal cemetery contains a monument to the victims of the massacre of Ayo Ayo, a town near La Paz, when students from the University of Charcas (another name for Sucre)—more formally known as the Pontifical University of St. Francis Xavier—were killed there on 24 January 1899 after taking refuge from the fighting up the road in Cosmini during the Bolivian civil war between liberal revolutionaries in La Paz towards the north and conservatives in Sucre in the south. The students’ names are inscribed on the tablets in front of the monument.

Sucre (elev. 2,810m/9,214ft) was founded by the Spanish in 1538 as Ciudad de la Plata de la Nueva Toledo (Silver City of New Toledo). It became the judicial, religious, and cultural center of the region. Bolivia achieved independence from Spain on 6 August 1825, the last country in Latin America to do so. In 1839 the city was declared the capital of Bolivia and renamed in honor of Antonio José de Sucre (1795-1830), a leader of the fight for independence who was a close friend of Simón Bolívar and served as the second president of Bolivia from the end of 1825 to 1828. (The administrative capital of Bolivia shifted to La Paz in 1898, a result of the civil war.)

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