Cochabamba (disambiguation)

Cochabamba (in hispanicized spelling) or Quchapampa (Quechua qucha lake, pampa a large plain, "lake plain") may refer to:

Geography

Animals

  • Cochabamba mountain-finch, a finch that is endemic to the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia
  • Cochabamba grass mouse, a rodent endemic to Bolivia
  • Colibri de Cochabamba, another name for the wedge-tailed hillstar a hummingbird native to Bolivia and Argentina

Institutions

Miscellaneous

  • Cochabamba social unrest of 2007 was an event in Bolivian history
  • Cochabamba-Santa Cruz Highway an important road built in the 1950s with U.S. aid
  • 2000 Cochabamba protests also known as the "Cochabamba Water Wars", were a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, between January and April 2000 because of the privatization of the municipal water supply.
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