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COCHABAMBA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 619 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COCHABAMBA , a See also:

city of See also:Bolivia, See also:capital of the See also:department of the same name and of the See also:province of Cercado, situated on the Rocha, a small tributary of the Guapay See also:river, in See also:lat. 17° 27' S. and See also:long. 65° 46' W. Pop. (1900) 21,886, mostly See also:Indians and mestizos. The city stands in a broad valley of the Bolivian See also:plateau, 8400 ft. above See also:sea-level, overshadowed by the See also:snow-clad heights of Tunari and Larati, 291 M. See also:north-north-See also:west of See also:Sucre and 132 M. See also:east-north-east of See also:Oruro, with both of which places it is connected by rough See also:mountain roads. A subsidized See also:stage-See also:coach See also:line runs to Oruro. A See also:contract for a railway between the two cities was made in 1906, connecting with the See also:Antofagasta and See also:Arica lines. The See also:climate is mild and temperate, and the surrounding See also:country fertile and cultivated. Cochabamba is often described as the most progressive city of Bolivia, but it has been held back by its isolated situation. The warehouses of the city are well supplied with See also:foreign goods, and See also:trade is active in spite of high prices. The city is provided with telegraphic communication via Oruro, and enjoys a large See also:part of the See also:Amazon trade through some small river ports on tributaries of the See also:Mamore.

The city is regularly laid out, and contains many attractive residences surrounded by gardens. It is an episcopal city (since 1847), containing many churches, four conventual establishments, and a missionary See also:

college of the " Propaganda Fide " for the See also:conversion of Indians. The city has a university and two colleges, but they are poorly equipped and receive very little support from the See also:government. Cochabamba was founded in the 16th See also:century, and for a See also:time was called Oropesa. It took an active part in the " See also:war of See also:independence," the See also:women distinguishing themselves in an attack on the See also:Spanish See also:camp in 1815, and some of them being put to See also:death in 1818 by the Spanish forces. In 1874 the city was seized and partly destroyed by See also:Miguel Aguirre, but in See also:general its isolated situation has been a See also:protection against the disorders which have convulsed Bolivia since her independence.

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