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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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 include Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana and Pukara.
Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana is a 17th-century Spanish colonial shrine that houses the image of the Virgen de Copacabana. It is located in the town of Copacabana, Bolivia on the shores of Lake Titicaca near the Altiplano region.
Pukara
Peak
Pukara is a 4,119-metre-high mountain in the Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, Guaqui Municipality.
Pachat’aqa
Pachataka, commonly known as the Inca Gallows, is an archaeological site in Bolivia, located near Lake Titicaca in the municipality of Copacabana, Manco Kapac Province, within the La Paz Department.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zampaya.
Zampaya
Village
Zampaya is a small location in the La Paz Department in Bolivia situated in the Copacabana Municipality, the first municipal section of the Manco Kapac Province. It is the seat of the Zampaya Canton. 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′ southLongitude
-69.0833° or 69° 5′ westPopulation
5,730Elevation
3,877 metres (12,720 feet)United Nations Location Code
BO CPBOpen location code
57MGRWX8+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 795662927OpenStreetMap 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”
- Vietnamese: “Copacabana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Copacabana, Bolivia”
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