Cochabamba - Cochabamba

Cochabamba is a city of Bolivia.

To know

Cochabamba is the third largest city in the Bolivia. It is located about 2500 meters above sea level. on a plateau in the central area of ​​the country.

When to go

Cochabamba enjoys a temperate climate, halfway between the harsh climate of the plateau and the tropical heat of the region of Santa Cruz

How to orient yourself

Neighborhoods

Cala Cala is the name of the elite neighborhood of Cochabamba.

How to get

By plane

Cochabamba has an international airport, the Jorge Wilstermann, located in the southern suburbs. As of 2009, the following companies operated there:

• Boliviana de Aviacion - Flights to Santa Cruz, La Paz,
• Line Aérea Amaszonas - For Trinidad
• TAM - Transporte Aéreo Militar - La Paz, Riberalta, Santa Cruz, Sucre, Tarija, Trinidad, Yacuiba
• LATAM Airlines - Buenos Aires-Ezieza, Asuncion, Santa Cruz

By car

La Paz is 385km northwest. Santa Cruz is 473km to the east. Sucre is 366 km away.

By bus

All major Bolivian cities are connected by buses of small private companies, in the south of Cochabamba there is the bus terminal.

How to get around

What see

• Statue of Cristo de la Concordia. 
• Iglesia de San Lorenzo. 
• Palacio Portales. Built between 1915 and 1927 by French architects, the Portales palace has luxurious interiors with silk-covered walls and precious furnishings that have come to us in good condition thanks to the dry climate of Cochabamba. The mansion belonged to Baron Simón Iturri Patiño, originally from Cochabamba and who became very wealthy after the discovery of tin deposits on his land in Oruro. The baron who lived in Paris did not have time to enjoy his house because he died while it was still under construction. Today the Palacio Portales is the seat of a cultural association 

Events and parties

What to do

Shopping

How to have fun

Where to eat

Where stay

Safety

How to keep in touch

Around

• THE.Along the way to Santa Cruz (Route 4)
  • Incallajta (132 km) - Military outpost from the Incas era. It is considered the most important archaeological site in the Bolivia, after Tiahuanaco.
• II.Along the highway for La Paz (Route 4)
  • Quillacollo - Taking the road to La Paz (nº 4), you meet Quillacollo, a large rural village of 80,000 inhabitants
• III.Along state 7 (Route 7)

The "Ruta 7" is an alternative route to Santa Cruz. It passes through the province of Chaparre where coca plants grow in large quantities as in the Yungas (Los Yungas) but the quality of Cochabamba is more appreciated.

• • Villa Tunari - Reachable from Cochabamba via a spectacular road that goes down the side of the cordillera overlooking the Amazon basin, Villa Tunari forms the basis for excursions to the national parks of Isiboro Sécure and of Carrasco. It is well worth a stop for one or more days if only to go up in a canoe the course of the Rio Chaparre that flows among a dense tropical vegetation.
  • Puerto Villarroel - On a branch of Ruta 7, Puerto Villarroel is a river port where, if desired, you can board small boats that go up the Río Ichilo with destination Trinidad, in the Amazon basin. Trinidad it can be reached more comfortably from Cochabamba by plane but the boat trip is considerably more exciting if, of course, one is willing to endure the annoying bites of swarms of mosquitoes present even in the dry season.

• Torotoro National Park - Reachable in about 8 hours by off-road vehicle along an uncomfortable track that winds for 200 km south of Cochabamba, the Torotoro National Park occupies part of the cordillera that separates the department of Cochabamba from that of Potosí. There are karst caves, waterfalls and rock paintings. For lovers of paleontology, a hiking trail is proposed, the path of the dinosaurs

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