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Cochabamba

Cochabamba is a department in the Sub-Andean region of . It lies in the Andean valley region of Bolivia, between the tropical lowlands of and the highlands and altiplano in and .
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, or simply Cocha is fourth largest city in central , in a valley with the same name, in the mountain range. Its name is from a compound of the Quechua words q'ucha, meaning "lake", and pampa, "open plain".

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is the capital of Province in Cochabamba Department, . The municipality was established on 14 September 1905 under the Presidency of Ismail Montes. It is located at 2,550 meters above sea level.

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or Tunari is a location in the department of Cochabamba, . It is the seat of the , the third municipal section of the .

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is a small city in the department of Cochabamba. It is prominent among the region's colonial towns for its surviving traditional architecture, and it is home to the annual festival of San Severino which marks the coming of the rains in late November.

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is a in Cochabamba Department, . It has a surface area of 6,226 square kilometers. More than 5,000 plant species have been registered in the area, placing the park among Bolivia's most biologically diverse.

Cochabamba

Latitude of center
-17.333° or 17° 19′ 59″ south
Longitude of center
-65.5011° or 65° 30′ 4″ west
Population
2,020,000
Elevation
3,623 metres (11,886 feet)
Inception
1826
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2854906389
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3919966
Wiki­data ID
Q233917
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cochabamba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة كوتشابامبا”
  • Aymara: “Kuchawampa jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Quchapampa jach’a suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koçabamba departamenti”
  • Balinese: “Departemén Cochabamba”
  • Basque: “Cochabamba”
  • Basque: “Cochabambako departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Качабамба”
  • Belarusian: “Качабамба (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Качабамба (дэпартамэнт)”
  • Belarusian: “Качабамба”
  • Bengali: “কোচাবম্বা বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Departamant Cochabamba”
  • Bulgarian: “Кочабамба”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Cochabamba”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Cochabamba”
  • Chinese: “Cochabamba Chiu”
  • Chinese: “哥茶班巴省”
  • Chinese: “科恰班巴省”
  • Croatian: “Cochabamba”
  • Czech: “Departement Cochabamba”
  • Danish: “Cochabamba”
  • Dutch: “Cochabamba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اداره كوتشابامبا”
  • Esperanto: “Cochabamba”
  • Esperanto: “Koĉabambo”
  • Esperanto: “Koĉapampio”
  • Estonian: “Cochabamba departemang”
  • Finnish: “Cochabamba”
  • French: “Cochabamba”
  • French: “Departement de Cochabamba”
  • French: “Département de Cochabamba”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Cochabamba”
  • Georgian: “კოჩაბამბის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Cochabamba”
  • German: “Departamento Cochabamba”
  • Greek: “Κοτσαμπάμπα”
  • Guarani: “Tetãvore Cochabamba”
  • Gujarati: “કોચબંબા વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קוצ’במבה”
  • Hindi: “कोचाबम्बा विभाग”
  • Hindi: “कोचाबाम्बा विभाग”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Cochabamba”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Cochabamba”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Cochabamba”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Cochabamba”
  • Japanese: “コチャバンバ県”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಚಬಂಬಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “코차밤바주”
  • Ladino: “Cochabamba”
  • Latvian: “Kočabambas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Kočabambos departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Кочабамба”
  • Malay: “Cochabamba Department”
  • Marathi: “कोचाबम्बा विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cochabamba Chiu”
  • Mingrelian: “კოჩაბამბაშ დეპარტამენტი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cochabamba (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cochabamba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cochabamba”
  • Norwegian: “Cochabamba”
  • Ossetian: “Кочабамбæ (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Кочабамбæ”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کوچوبامبا”
  • Polish: “Cochabamba”
  • Portuguese: “Cochabamba”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Cochabamba”
  • Quechua: “Quchapampa suyu”
  • Quechua: “Quchapanpa suyu”
  • Romanian: “Cochabamba”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Cochabamba”
  • Russian: “Кочабамба”
  • Scots: “Cochabamba Depairtment”
  • Serbian: “Кочабамба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cochabamba (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cochabamba”
  • Sinhala: “කොචබම්බා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, බොලිවියාව”
  • Sinhala: “කොචබම්බා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento Cochabamba”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Cochabamba”
  • Spanish: “Cochabamba”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Cochabamba”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Cochabamba”
  • Swedish: “Cochabamba”
  • Tamil: “கொச்சபம்பா துறை”
  • Telugu: “కోచబాంబా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “కోచబాంబా విభాగం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นโกชาบัมบา”
  • Turkish: “Cochabamba departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Cochabamba Departmanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Кочабамба”
  • Urdu: “ڈیپارٹمنٹ کوچابامبا”
  • Urdu: “محکمہ کوچابامبا”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Cochabamba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cochabamba”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کوچابمبا”
  • Wu Chinese: “科恰班巴省”
  • Yiddish: “קאטשאבאמבא דעפארטמענט”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥茶班巴省”
  • “Tlālxeliuhcāyōtl Cochabamba”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Cochabamba”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.