Cochabamba hosted men's basketball, judo, tennis, and men's volleyball, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, hosted equestrian, fencing, women's volleyball, and weightlifting.
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The South American Torch was ligthed by Bolivian athletes Roberto Prado in La Paz, Isabel Alemán in Cochabamba, and José Ernesto Roca in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
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The I Southern Cross Games (Spanish: Juegos Cruz del Sur) were a multi-sport event held from November 3 to November 12, 1978 in La Paz, Bolivia, with some events in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
There were two opening ceremonies that took place on April 24, 1993, at the Estadio Félix Capriles in Cochabamba, and at the Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Dorado is a native of Cochabamba, Bolivia and majored in Fine Arts, with a minor in painting, at ARCIS (University of Art and Social Ciences) in Santiago, Chile.
The area is bordered to the north and south by two roads that connect the cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.
The Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi) is an armadillo present in Bolivia, in the region of the Puna, the departments of Oruro, La Paz, and Cochabamba (Gardner, 1993).
It was first constituted on March 22, 1997 and was composed of the regional organizations: Jatun Quillakas Asanajaqis, J'acha Carangas, Charka Qhara Qhara, First Nations' Council of Potosi's Ayllus, Qhara Qhara, Ayllus of Cochabamba, Jach'a Suyu Pakajak'i, Urus, Saoras-Chuwis, and Kallawayas.
The Cochabamba peasant leader Alejo Véliz became the main leader of ASP with Evo Morales in second position.
Augusto Céspedes Patzi (6 February 1904, Cochabamba - 9 May 1997, La Paz) was a Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist.
It is also found in northern Potosí and southwest Cochabamba, but it is slowly being replaced by Quechua in those regions.
He was several times wounded, and was made major and colonel on the battlefields of Cochabamba and Sapachni.
They took seven years and the toils of the voyage brought death to Salvany (Cochabamba, 1810).
During this period there were three different governments attempting to rule Bolivia; a legitimate government headquartered in Chuquisaca headed by José Mariano Serrano, another headquartered in Cochabamba headed by José Miguel de Velasco, and that of Ballivian headquartered in La Paz.
During Hugo Chavez's visit to Cochabamba on April 22, 2010, the Colorados formed the guard of honor during the arrival ceremonies.
In Cochabamba on January 16, a cavalry squad of American Dragoons rose up in rebellion.
In order to qualify for the Nacional B there are 9 subdivisions at the 3rd level: the Departmental Championships or Regional Leagues, which comprises teams from the different Departments of Bolivia: Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Oruro, Tarija Department, Beni Department Pando Department, Potosí
Thousands of Brazilians who live on Bolivian territory near the border with Brazil are suffering the threat of banishment because Bolivian President Evo Morales, under the claim of guaranteeing his country sovereignty, wants to settle four thousand peasant families from La Paz and Cochabamba, onto 200 thousand hectares located in the bordering region.
Calacoto is located in the central zone of the Zona Sur which is considered the biggest residential area in the country along with Santa Cruz’s Equipetrol and Cochabamba’s Cala Cala.
Carlos Fernando Borja Bolívar (born December 25, 1956 in Cochabamba) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder.
Christian Israel Vargas Claros (born 8 September 1983 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football right defender who currently plays for San José in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.
The book is a reflection of the life of the inhabitants in Cochabamba, and is focused on the actions developed in the Peruvian region.
The Cochabamba Fault Zone or Cochabamba Shear Zone is an east-southeast trending zone of sinistral strike-slip faults near the city of Cochabamba in the Bolivian Andes.
The project was conceived in 1973 by José Rodriguez Tenorio, and is the biggest Christ statue in North America; and third biggest in Latin America, only smaller than the statue of Christ The Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
After the death of his father, he was appointed Mayor of Oropeza and the valley of Cochabamba.
Edgar Rolando Olivares Burgoa (born January 26, 1977 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football midfielder.
Edward Mauro Zenteno (born December 5, 1984 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football defender currently playing for Club Aurora in Bolivia.
Epidendrum dendrobii is a terrestrial species of reed-stemmed Epidendrum of the Orchidaceae which grows on steep slopes in tropical montane cloud forests of Cochabamba, Bolivia and Venezuela at altitudes near 2.6 km.
His overall personal best jump is 8.18 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Cochabamba.
Due to the renown the school achieved and the fame of the illustrious educator that surpassed the frontiers of Peru, he received the petition of being the founding Director of the first private school in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1868: the “2 de Mayo” elementary school.
On April 24, 2013, he was ordained bishop in the Cathedral Church of Riberalta by the bishops Luis Morgan Casey, vicar apostolic emeritus of Pando, cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and Tito Solari Capellari, archbishop of Cochabamba.
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Serving the Archdiocese of Cochabamba he was parochial vicar in Sacaba and Villa Tunari, and then parish priest in Condebamba of Cochabamba (from 1996 to 2000).
His work for choir Tres coros bolivianos won in 1965 the first prize of the contest Luzmila Patiño in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
He later served as Director of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of Guanajuato (1991–1997), and became the CEO and founder of the El Condor de los Andes-Aguila Azteca AC, an international cultural center currently based in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia (1999).
Álvaro Franz Calustro Cárdenas (born March 9, 1974 in Cochabamba) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder.
Coraca-Protal in Bolivia, it’s a peasant organization that goes into action and leads a global local development program in the region of Cochabamba, in the center of Bolivia, basically organizing the production, transformation and commercialization of food crops;
The bend occurs at the latitude of Cochabamba and corresponds to eastward proyection of the Arica elbow, the bend of south Amicas coastline at the Peru-Chile border.
Gonzalo Germán Galindo Sánchez (born October 20, 1974 in Cochabamba) was a Bolivian football midfielder.
His only goal came in a friendly match against Honduras on January 29, 1993, when he opened the score in the 3–1 in the Estadio Felix Capriles, Cochabamba.
After its founding in 1998, Hospitals of Hope began work in and around Cochabamba, Bolivia.
For several months in 2004, he was a professor of basic science with the Catholic University in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.
The main activities was in Cochabamba where the First Presbyterian Church in Cochabamba was founded, but church planting extended in other part of the country.
Jaime Laredo (born June 7, 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a violinist and conductor.
Javier was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia footballer began his stage at Club Enrique Happ because of their great skills in 2011 with only 16 years and debuted in the first team.
On 19 August 2006, he became director of the Oruro Symphony Orchestra, next to Augusto Guzmán, a prestigious director from Cochabamba.
In a few weeks afterwards he occupied the whole of Upper Peru, including the cities of La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and Potosí, re-establishing Spanish control over the territory.
With the victory in the Battle of La Florida, he received many wounds and almost lost his life, protected the entrance to the High Peru of the Northern Army, in his third attempt to incorporate the Upper Peru to the revolution, led by José Rondeau, and reoccupied the city of Cochabamba.
They originate from Cochabamba and are one of the most popular cumbia bands in South America.
Los Tiempos is a newspaper published in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Siles became President when Barrientos was killed in a helicopter crash near Arque, Cochabamba, on April 27, 1969.
Later on she was selected as the lead singer by a musical band that participated in a contest in Cochabamba.
Above the rapids the river is navigable to Chimore, at the foot of the sierra, and most of its tributaries are navigable for long distances.
Manfred Reyes Villa (born April 20, 1954) is a Bolivian politician, who was mayor of Cochabamba four times in a row and ran for the presidency in 2002 and 2009 against Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and Evo Morales Ayma.
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He was also elected as the first Governor of Cochabamba, Bolivia, and served from 2006 until 2008 when he was unconstitutionaly revocated By Evo Morales through a series of violent riots.
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A large uprising, Evo Morales and his government occurred in Cochabamba early 2007 with thousands of supporters of the President Evo Morales in Cochabamba demanding Villa's resignation.
Marcelo Antonio Carballo (born December 7, 1974 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football defender currently playing for first division club Wilstermann.
Marcelo Ernesto Torrico Terán (born January 11, 1972 in Cochabamba) is a retired Bolivian football goalkeeper.
Marco Antonio Sandy Sansusty (born August 29, 1971 in Cochabamba) is a former Bolivian football defender.
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Sandy made his international debut on January 29, 1993 in a friendly match against Honduras (3-1 win) in Cochabamba.
The Misicuni Multiple Project, better known as the Misicuni Dam, is a project under construction on the Misicuni River northwest of the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Nataniel Aguirre (Cochabamba, Bolivia, October 10, 1843 – Montevideo, Uruguay, September 11, 1888), was a prominent Bolivian lawyer, diplomat, politician, writer, and historian.
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Born in the Hacienda de Huayllani, in the department of Cochabamba, the fourth of five children, he was the son of the financier and Bolivian politician Miguel María de Aguirre and María Manuela González de Prada, who died when he was only three years old.
In Cochabamba a defective gamma radiography set was transported in a passenger bus as cargo.
Opinión is a newspaper published in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
On August 19, 2006, the orchestra was refunded by a merger of classical musicians from the Ensemble Ad Libitvm, the Camacho of Oruro and the Camerata Concertante of Cochabamba.
In the 2009 election, its presidential candidate was Manfred Reyes Villa, former head of the New Republican Force, and former prefect of Cochabamba Department and former mayor of Cochabamba.
Reina Sudamericana 2005, The 15th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia on October 14, 2005.
Richard José Rojas Guzmán (born February 27, 1975 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football midfielder.
The diocese is headed by Bishop Francesco Beschi, and has a strong fraternal relationship with the city and the archdiocese of Cochabamba in Bolivia.
The confirmed roots of Bolivian rugby go back to the 1960s, when José Pipo Viale, from Córdoba, Argentina introduced the game to Cochabamba.
Sustainable Bolivia is a non-profit public benefit institution with offices in the United States and Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Castillo cleared eight metres twice in May 2004, first with a jump of 8.03 m in Mexico City and then a personal best and Venezuelan national record of 8.34 m in Cochabamba.
Víctor Hugo Arévalo Jordán (born December 23, 1946 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian writer and noted university professor.
Víctor Hugo Daza was a 17-year old Bolivian citizen killed by the military during the protests of early 2000 in the city of Cochabamba.
Vladimir Castellón Colque (born August 12, 1989 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian football striker currently playing for Club Aurora in Bolivia.
Vladimir Soria Camacho (born July 15, 1964 in Cochabamba) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder and the current Assistant First Team Coach of Club Bolívar.
The most notable cancellations include the concession for Aguas Argentinas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the concessions for Cochabamba and La Paz, Bolivia.
They had two children, David Michael Alejandro, born on 22 February 1991 in Callao, Peru, and Elizabeth Lorca, born 6 August 1993 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Wílliam Luis Ramallo Fernández (born July 4, 1963 in Cochabamba) is a retired football striker who was nicknamed "El Pescador del Área", or "El Fantasma".
Windsor Alfredo Del Llano Suárez (born 17 August 1949 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a retired Bolivian-American soccer forward who earned one cap with the U.S. national team in 1973 and another thirty with Bolivia between 1975 and 1981.
The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth was a global gathering of civil society and governments hosted by the government of Bolivia in Tiquipaya, just outside the city of Cochabamba from April 19–22, 2010.
The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park in Winter Park, Florida, and the Bachfest Bolivia, celebrated yearly in Cochabamba each March since 2008.
The country was divided in 5 departments: La Paz, Cochabamba, Potosí, Charkas and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
The park was slated as the site of the Segment Two (of three) of the proposed Villa Tunari–San Ignacio de Moxos Highway, which would provide the first direct highway link between Cochabamba and Beni Departments.
Most of the Llanos de Moxos lies within the departments of El Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, and Santa Cruz.
The Villa Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos Highway, also known as the Cochabamba–Beni Highway is a road project in Bolivia connecting the towns of Villa Tunari (in Cochabamba Department) and San Ignacio de Moxos (in Beni Department).
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Proposals for a highway linking the region of San Ignacio de Moxos with Cochabamba have been raised perennially in the history of the region.
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Ignacio Flores, the Spanish governor of Mojos proposed opening a road from Cochabamba to Mojos via the Chapare in 1780.
Yuracaré (also Yurakaré, Yurakar, Yuracare, Yurucare, Yuracar, Yurakare, Yurujuré, Yurujare) is an endangered language isolate of central Bolivia in Cochabamba and Beni departments spoken by the Yuracaré people.