Cochabamba
Cochabamba
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About
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 661,484 according to the 2024 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.
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The next week in Cochabamba
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Partly cloudy
25° / 9°
UV High
Sat
Clear
26° / 8°
UV High
Sun
Partly cloudy
26° / 10°
UV High
Mon
Overcast
23° / 10°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
26° / 8°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
25° / 9°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
27° / -3°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.3h
06:41 – 18:00local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Cochabamba
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Jorge Wilsterman International Airport (CBB) at 4 km.
Getting around Cochabamba
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, No machine-readable author provided. Anakin~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)..
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.