Cochabamba (bol)

Cochabamba

Cochabamba ranks 728th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chernivtsi, White Plains, New York, and New Rochelle, New York. Memorable people born in Cochabamba include Mario Terán, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, and Juan José Torres. Memorable people who died in Cochabamba include Daniel Salamanca Urey, Adela Zamudio, and Carlos Quintanilla. Cochabamba has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Cochabamba is located in Bolivia.

Cochabamba is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 630,587 according to the 2012 Bolivian census. Its name is from a compound of the Quechua words qucha "lake" and pampa, "open plain." Residents of the city and the surrounding areas are commonly referred to as cochalas or, more formally, cochabambinos. Read more on Wikipedia