Vacas
Vacas is a Bolivian village in the southeast of the Cochabamba Department. It is the capital of the Vacas Municipality, the second municipal section of the Arani Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 687 residents
- Description: human settlement in Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Also known as: “Santa Bárbara de Bacas” and “Vacas, Cochabamba”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chullpa Ch’utu and Qullpa Qucha.
Chullpa Ch’utu
Peak
Chullpa Ch'utu is a 3,748-metre-high mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Arani Province, Vacas Municipality, north of Vacas. The Jatun Mayu, a tributary of Parqu Qucha, flows along its western slope.
Qullpa Qucha
Reservoir
Photo: Willaq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qullpa Qucha is a Bolivian lake located in Vacas Municipality, Arani Province, Cochabamba Department. Its surface area is 2.3 km2. Qullpa Qucha is situated 4 km south of Vacas.
Pilawit’u
Reservoir
Photo: Willaq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pilawit'u is a Bolivian lake located in Vacas Municipality, Arani Province, Cochabamba Department. The last four thousand years of environmental and vegetation change has been recently reconstructed from the lake sediments of Pilawit'u The main tributaries… Pilawit’u is situated 3 km southeast of Vacas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Challwa Mayu and Totora Municipality.
Challwa Mayu
Village
Photo: Willaq, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Challwa Mayu is a Bolivian village in the south-east of the Cochabamba Department located in the Arani Province, Vacas Municipality, north-west of Vacas.
Totora Municipality
Hamlet
Totora Municipality is the first municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Totora. Totora Municipality is situated 6 km southeast of Vacas.
Vacas
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia, South America
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Latitude
-17.57253° or 17° 34′ 21″ southLongitude
-65.57916° or 65° 34′ 45″ westPopulation
687Elevation
3,465 metres (11,368 feet)Open location code
57JPCCGC+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 4380978379OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3901894Wikidata ID
Q1642755
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aymara to Swedish—“Vacas” goes by many names.
- Aymara: “Wak’as”
- Cebuano: “Vacas”
- Danish: “Vacas”
- Dutch: “Vacas”
- French: “Vacas”
- German: “Vacas”
- Irish: “Vacas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vacas”
- Norwegian: “Vacas”
- Polish: “Vacas”
- Quechua: “Huacas”
- Quechua: “Wak’as”
- Quechua: “Wakas”
- Scots: “Vacas, Cochabamba”
- Scots: “Vacas”
- Spanish: “Vacas”
- Swedish: “Vacas, Cochabamba”
- Swedish: “Vacas”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vacas”. Photo: Willaq, CC BY-SA 3.0.