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Cochabamba was the first place rugby union in Bolivia was formally established. Cochabamba was featured as a location in the story in the 1983 film, Scarface. Powerful drug lord Alejandro Sosa resided there, governed large coca plantations and owned cocaine labs whereupon further refining, would be shipped to Tony Montana in Florida.
The center of the department is marked by the temperate xeric valleys of Cochabamba (known as Kanata), Alto Cochabamba, and Capinota. These valley areas are marked by dry montane forests, and semi-arid orographies. Temperate climates year-round feature considerable diurnal temperature variation due to the high altitude.
The road has a length of 488 kilometres (303 mi) and connects the two metropolises of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra in a northwest–southeast direction. It begins in the valley of Cochabamba at about 2,500-metre (8,200 ft) altitude, accompanies the eastern Andes chain of the Cordillera Central and finally ends at about 450-metre (1,480 ft) altitude in Santa Cruz between the river ...
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory.
The northeastern flank of the Cordillera Real is known as the Yungas, from the Aymara and Quechua word yunka meaning "warm valley". [2] [3] The steep, almost inaccessible slopes and peaks of this mainly semitropical valley area northeast of La Paz offer some of the most spectacular scenery in Bolivia.
Chachakumani (Quechua chachakuma a medical plant, [2] [3]-ni an Aymara suffix, "the one with the chachakuma plant, also spelled Chachacomani) is a 4,592-metre-high (15,066 ft) mountain in the Bolivian Andes.
Module:Location map/data/Bolivia Cochabamba is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Cochabamba. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Cercado is a province in Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Cochabamba, which is also the capital of the department. Subdivision.