Cochabamba

Cochabamba
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Eik-name(s):  "Ceety o Eternal Spring" "The Garden Ceey" "La Llajta"
Cochabamba Location in Bolivie
Coordinates: 17°23′S 66°10′W
Kintra	Bolivie
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) 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". 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

• Córdoba, Argentinae
• Kunming, Yunnan, China
• Bergamo, Italy
• Cabuyao, Philippines
• San Francisco, USA
• Miami, USA