frazada

How it is used in Bolivia

The everyday highland word for a blanket (not 'manta'). Because Potosí's nights turn genuinely cold, asking for an extra frazada on arrival is completely ordinary, hostals expect it.

The heavy blanket on every Sucre bed; asking for una frazada más is normal when the nights turn cold.

The Bolivian word for a blanket, 'manta' is understood, but beds, hostels and buses come with frazadas. On night routes, '¿dan frazada?' is a standard passenger question.

'Frazada' is the highland word for a bed blanket (elsewhere you'll also hear 'cobija'). On a cold Copacabana night an extra one is worth asking for, hostales keep spares for guests.

The everyday Bolivian word; many people in Sucre sleep under two or three.

Highland Spanish for blankets (not 'mantas'); the basic lagoons lodges pile several on each bed against the night cold.