Cochabamba
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Cochabamba | |
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Eik-name(s): "Ceety o Eternal Spring" "The Garden Ceey" "La Llajta" | |
Coordinates: 17°23′S 66°10′W / 17.383°S 66.167°WCoordinates: 17°23′S 66°10′W / 17.383°S 66.167°W | |
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Depairtment | Cochabamba |
Province | Cercado Province |
Municipality | Cochabamba Municipality |
Area | |
• City | 348 km2 (134 sq mi) |
Elevation | 2825 m (9,268 ft) |
Population (2008) | |
• Urban | 608,276 |
Website | http://www.cochabamba.bo/ |
Cochabamba is a ceety in central Bolivie, locatit in a valley bearin the same name in the Andes muntain range. It is the caipital o the Cochabamba Depairtment an is the fowert lairgest ceety in Bolivie wi an urban population o 608,276 (2008)[1] an a metropolitan population o mair nor 1,000,000 fowk. The name derives frae a compund o the Quechua words qucha, meanin "lake", an pampa, "open plain".[2] Residents o the ceety an surroondin auries are commonly referred tae as Cochabambinos. Cochabamba is kent as the "Ceety o Eternal Spring" an "The Garden Ceety" due tae its spring-like temperatures year roond. It is forby kent as "La Llajta", "toun" in Quechua.
The ceety is forby host tae the first World People's Conference on Climate Change an the Richts o Mither Earth.
Sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Córdoba, Argentinae
Kunming, Yunnan, China
Bergamo, Italy
Cabuyao, Philippines
San Francisco, USA
Miami, USA
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "World Gazetteer". Archived frae the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ↑ Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha pdf
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