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These 53 cities have a population of 6,162,346, accounting for 61.4% of the country's population. The largest city is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, with a population of 1,441,406, a 29.4% increase from the last census date of 5 September 2001. [5] La Guardia had the highest percentage increase, 801.5%, from 2001 to 2012.
Cochabamba is a steadily emerging market within the Bolivian real estate industry. Since 2010, it became the city with the most surface area in construction in Bolivia overpassing Santa Cruz and La Paz. There are many middle and large buildings under construction by 2012.
Cochabamba Department. Cochabamba (Aymara: Quchapampa Jach'a Suyu, Spanish: Departamento de Cochabamba pronounced [kotʃaˈβamba] ⓘ, Quechua: Quchapampa Suyu), from Quechua qucha or qhucha, meaning "lake", pampa meaning "plain", [3] is one of the nine departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its ...
In the mid-1990s the government of Bolivia, under pressure from the World Bank, decided to privatize water supply in the country's third largest city, Cochabamba. In the previous years, despite encumbered funds made available by the World Bank to support the public utility of Cochabamba, access to piped water in the city had decreased to 40%.
Sacaba is a capital city and a municipality in the Bolivian province of Chapare. The city, located 13 kilometers eastward from Cochabamba, is the second largest city in the Cochabamba Department after Cochabamba city. Post-colonial architecture may be seen in the inner part of Sacaba; however, some has been destroyed due to lack of municipal care.
The number of houses approved for construction that were yet to be started increased 1.4% to 285,000 units. The single-family homebuilding backlog rose 2.8% to 148,000 units, the highest level ...
20+. The Cochabamba Water War, [2] also known as the Bolivian Water War, was a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia 's fourth largest city, between December 1999 and April 2000 in response to the privatization of the city's municipal water supply company SEMAPA. The wave of demonstrations and police violence was described ...
Surface elevation. 4,105 m (13,468 ft) Warawara ( Aymara warawara star, [1] Hispanicized spellings Huara Huara, Huarahuara ), often spelled Wara Wara, is a lake in the Tunari National Park in Bolivia. It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Chapare Province, Sacaba Municipality. [2] Warawara lies north east of the city Cochabamba and north ...