Copacabana
Copacabana is the main Bolivian town on the shore of Lake Titicaca. The town has a large 17th-century shrine, the Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana, dedicated to Our Lady of Copacabana, the patron saint of Bolivia.
- Type: Town with 5,730 residents
- Description: Bolivian town on the shore of Lake Titicaca
- Also known as: “Capacabana” and “Copacabana, Bolivia”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana and Pukara.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zampaya.
Zampaya
Village
Zampaya is a small location in the La Paz Department… Zampaya is situated 5 km north of Copacabana.
Copacabana
- Category: locality
- Location: La Paz, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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Latitude
-16.15° or 16° 9′ south
Longitude
-69.0833° or 69° 5′ west
Population
5,730
Elevation
3,877 metres (12,720 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BO CPB
Open location code
57MGRWX8+XM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Copacabana” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوباكابانا”
- Asturian: “Copacabana”
- Aymara: “Qupakawana”
- Catalan: “Copacabana”
- Cebuano: “Copacabana”
- Chinese: “科帕卡瓦納”
- Czech: “Copacabana”
- Danish: “Copacabana”
- Dutch: “Copacabana”
- Finnish: “Copacabana”
- French: “Copacabana”
- Galician: “Copacabana”
- German: “Copacabana”
- Greek: “Κοπακαμπάνα”
- Japanese: “コパカバーナ (ボリビア)”
- Korean: “코파카바나”
- Lithuanian: “Kopakabana”
- Macedonian: “Копакабана (Боливија)”
- Macedonian: “Копакабана”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Copacabana”
- Norwegian: “Copacabana”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Copacabana”
- Polish: “Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Copacabana”
- Quechua: “Qupaqhawana”
- Russian: “Копакабана”
- Slovak: “Copacabana”
- Spanish: “Copacabana”
- Swedish: “Copacabana, Bolivia”
- Urdu: “کوپکابانا، بولیویا”
- Vietnamese: “Copacabana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Copacabana, Bolivia”
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