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	Cochabamba department, Bolivia
		The department of Cochabamba is located in central Bolivia, west of La Paz and north of Sucre.
		The wealth of Cochabamba as the granary of Bolivia resumed in the middle of the XIXth century.
		The coat of arms of the department of Cochabamba is of French shape.
	www.fotw.net /flags/bo-c.html (747 words)

	Bolivia - Travel Guide - Guia Turistica - Tours
		Cochabamba's department is placed to 2.558 meters on the level of the sea.
		It has cold climate in the mountains and it's moderated in the valleys with an annual everage temperature that ranges between the 16ºC and 19 º C. The Chapare is considered to be one of the zones of major rainfall in the world, with an average of 4.000 mm.
		Cochabamba's department has a population of 1.524.724 habitants (Estimated 2000 INE) with a population's density of 27.41 habitants per Km2.
	www.gbtbolivia.com /en/cochabamba/index.php?id=1 (160 words)

	Cochabamba department, Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The wealth of Cochabamba as the granary of Bolivia resumed in the middle of the XIXth century.
		The Diocese of Cochabamba (Cocabambensis) was established by a bull of Pope Pius IX on 25 June 1847; it was the fourth diocese set up in Bolivia.
		The current Cochabamba department flag is the flag used by the Cochambians in the Battle of Aroma (Independence war).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/bo-c.html (720 words)

	Cochabamba View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Whereas in the 1950's the city's popluation was at 86,000, increasing at an annual percentage of 2.5 and being only 16.5% of the department's popluation, by 1986, the population was increasing at 4.2%.
		In 1986, the city's population was 31% of the department's population.
		During the height of Potosi's silver boom, the Cochabamba Valley developed as a primary source of food for the miners of Potosi due to its agriculturally rich land.
	www.macalester.edu /courses/GEOG61/dcartier/vista.html (281 words)

	Surveillance for Cholera -- Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, January-June 1992
		During this period, 4087 cholera cases in residents of Cochabamba department were reported to the MSSPH; surveillance forms were submitted for 2962 (72%) and oral reports for 1125 (28%) cases.
		The CFR has been higher in rural areas of Latin America (as demonstrated in Cochabamba department), reflecting factors such as lack of access to health care, inadequate distribution of oral rehydration salts, and delays in providing prevention and treatment education outside urban areas (4).
		The evaluation of cholera surveillance in Cochabamba department for January-June 1992 is a component of the DDM Project in Bolivia.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00021431.htm (878 words)

	Andes River Basin
		The southern slopes of the Tunari mountain range in the Cochabamba Department cover an area of approximately 412 km 2.
		The Cochabamba Department population is 1,455,711 (INE, 2003), representing 17.6% of the total Bolivian population.
		The population density in the Cochabamba Department is 26.2 people/km 2, exceeding the national population density of 7.6 people/ km 2.
	www.condesan.org /andean/tunari.htm (425 words)

	Cochabamba, Bolivia, Pictures
		Cochabamba, city in central Bolivia, capital of Cochabamba Department, on the Rocha River, about 2560 m (about 8400 ft) above sea level, at the foot of Mount Tunari.
		The city's industry includes the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, refined petroleum, leather, soap, and earthenware; considerable trade, especially in grain and Peruvian bark (from which quinine and related medicinal substances are obtained), is also carried on.
		Cochabamba was founded in 1574 as Villa de Oropeza and was renamed in 1786.
	www.greatestcities.com /South_America/Bolivia/Cochabamba_city.html (289 words)

	disturbances in Bolivia s23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		COCHABAMBA DEPARTMENT This centrally located and third most important department of the country is totally blocked in all directions from the rest of the country, now for several days.
		All roads leading into and out of Cochabamba (the geographic center of the country) are closed, calculated to cost the department at least $3 million a day (the Government declared that over $20 million has been lost nationally since the road blocks began and that foreign trade contracts are in danger of being cancelled).
		The now world famous Cochabamba Coordinadora del Agua y la Vida (their protests in April spread to other parts of the country and resulted in a national state of seige being declared by the Government), entered into discussions with the Government on Monday, September 18.
	stop-war.aufmupf.de /PineSGI4101001002130107054282566-100000.html (2236 words)

	The "Centro de Tecnología Agroindustrial" program to transform the utilization of the Cochabamba region's ...
		Cochabamba, a predominantly agricultural region, has a great vegetation diversity due to the different ecosystems present.
		The department of Cochabamba, located in the center of Bolivia, has a diversity of climates, soils, vegetal coverage and physiographic characteristics, forming part of three large agro-ecological systems: valleys, high plateaus, and tropic low lands, all with a great vegetation diversity which is not adequately utilized.
		Fifteen units for the extraction of essential oils have been installed in different rural areas in the department of Cochabamba, with the associated benefits for farmers and national industry.
	www.solutions-site.org /artman/publish/printer_17.shtml (2706 words)

	Cochabamba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On May 27th, 1812 during the Colonial Revolution, Cochabamba's women, children, and elderly residents, led by the 60-year-old nearly-blind Josefa Manuela Gandarillas, waged a heroic defense of Cochabamba against Spanish Royalist troops seeking to quell the revolution.
		Aymara, one of Bolivia's native languages, is spoken by a few Cochabambinos, primarily internal immigrants from the departments of La Paz, Oruro, and Potosí.
		Quechua is the language of the Incas, and the dominant indigenous language in Cochabamba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cochabamba (1764 words)

	Bolivia
		In the Chapare region between Santa Cruz and Cochabamba and the Yungas region northeast of La Paz violence and civil unrest, primarily associated with anti-narcotics activities, periodically create a risk for travelers to those regions.
		Although La Paz, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba are connected by improved highways, the vast majority of roads in Bolivia are unpaved.
		Cochabamba: The Consular Agency in Cochabamba is located at Avenida Oquendo 654, Torres Sofer, room 601; telephone (591-4) 411-6313; fax (591-4) 425 -6714.
	travel.state.gov /travel/bolivia.html (4803 words)

	Bolivia - Urbanization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The pace of urban growth quickened to 3.5 percent annually between 1950 and 1976; by 1976 Cochabamba consisted of 200,000 residents and included 28 percent of the overall departmental population.
		Between 1976 and 1986, urban growth intensified to 4.2 percent annually as the city encompassed 31 percent of the department's population.
		In contrast with the previous predominance of migrants from rural communities in Cochabamba Department, the percentage of migrants from the Altiplano climbed to 40 percent in 1976, to 54 percent in 1983, and to 60 percent in 1986.
	countrystudies.us /bolivia/40.htm (552 words)

	AIESEC
		The department of Cochabamba is between 17°23´ of South altitude and 66°09´ of west longitude of the meridian of Greenwich.
		The climate of the department varies with the altitude: cold in the eternal snow regions cordilleranas, tempering in valleys of the South flank of the mountain range, cold or tempering in the region of the "ceja", warm in yungas of the north and to the southwest.
		The department of Cochabamba, with exception of the north of provinces Carrasco and Chapare, is completely mountainous area, between Real and Oriental's Mountains, the mountain range takes the name Cochabamba Tunari or the Herradura.
	www.aiesec.org /explora/them_train/health/bolivia/vidaplena (848 words)

	UNODC - Gran Angular - November 1998 - Presenting the Forestry P (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Prefect of Cochabamba inaugurated the event in the presence of the Minister of Sustainable Development and the country Representatives of FAO and UNDCP in Bolivia.
		HIGHLIGHTING that during the mentioned period, the settlers of the Cochabamba Tropics, the national, departmental and municipal governments, private industry, and the international community have developed programmes and projects to generate an alternative economy to replace coca cultivation.
		EMPHASIZING that currently, a consensus exists that, for its agroecological characteristics, the greater proportion of the lands of the Cochabamba Tropics are apt for agroforestry, for forestry management, forestry, and environmental protection, constituting the basis for a new paradigm of sustainable development in the region.
	www.unodc.org /bolivia/newsletter_1998-11-30_1_page017.html (416 words)

	Bolivia. In: Amnesty International Report 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Human rights violations were reported in Cochabamba Department in the context of a state of siege.
		In April, 17-year-old Hugo Daza was shot dead in Cochabamba at the time that an army officer in civilian clothing was seen firing into the crowd during a demonstration.
		Hours before the state of siege was declared in April, hooded police officers raided the homes of union leaders and members of the Coordinating Committee for the Defence of Water and Life in Cochabamba, arresting the leaders, beating members of their families, stealing household goods, and shooting at neighbours with pellets.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2001.nsf/webamrcountries/BOLIVIA?OpenDocument (937 words)

	americas.org - Campesinos Met with Gunfire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Early on October 27, some 2,000 campesinos in Sacaba municipality, in the central Bolivian department of Cochabamba, attempted to occupy a 30-hectare piece of land belonging to former defense minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín.
		Military and police forces fired tear gas and live ammunition at the protesters, wounding six people, at least three of them seriously; one man was hospitalized in a coma and another may lose a leg.
		On October 27 in the city of Santa Cruz, the government and leaders of Bolivia’s Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) announced a pact resolving occupations of the La Luna estate in Guarayos province, Santa Cruz department, and the Collana estate in Aroma province, La Paz department.
	www.americas.org /item_8586 (410 words)

	Cochabamba Bolivia Travel and Tours to Cochabamba Enjoy Bolivia
		Before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, the valley of Cochabamba (from the Quechua term, cocha: lagoon and pampas: plain), was inhabited by primitive cultures that, later on, fell under the domain of the Collas.
		Then, the sons of the Sun extended their golden empire until these rich lands that were part of the Collasuyo region.
		History says that the city of Cochabamba -capital of the department of the same name- was founded twice.
	www.enjoybolivia.com /english/guiadestinos/cochabamba/INTRO_IN.shtml (360 words)

	AGR Online/ World News
		Cochabamba, Bolivia, Sept. 25 (IPS)— Protests, strikes and roadblocks have brought Bolivia to a standstill, while the first casualties have been reported, demands for modifications of government policies are becoming more and more strident, and some demonstrators are even calling for President Hugo Banzer to step down.
		Simultaneously, local residents from the tropical coca-producing region of Chapare in the department of Cochabamba began to mobilize against the presence of the army in their area.
		Thousands of chickens starved to death on farms around the city of Cochabamba because their rations which are trucked in from the department of Santa Cruz never arrived.
	www.agrnews.org /issues/89/worldnews.html (2982 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cochabamba
		The city from which this diocese takes its name is the capital of the department of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
		The Diocese of Cochabamba was erected by a Bull of Pius IX, 25 June, 1847, and is a suffragan of Charcas (La Plata).
		It comprises the department of Cochabamba and part of the adjoining department of Beni.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04075b.htm (159 words)

	Maps Of Bolivia
		Pando Department - Pando Department - Provinces of Nicolas Suarez, Manuripi, Madre de Dios, and Abuna.
		Beni Department - Beni Department - Provinces of Mamore, Itenez
		Cochabamba Department - Cochabamba Department - Provinces of Ayopaya and Chapore.
	www.embassyworld.com /maps/Maps_Of_Bolivia.html (836 words)

	Untitled
		GOB ministers came to Cochabamba to negotiate with the Coordinadora del Agua, which refused to meet because Governor Orias was present.
		In Cochabamba, city blockades in the afternoon were minimal compared to last February and April.
		Current disturbances in 7 of Bolivia's 9 departments started last week in La Paz when the national teachers' union marched for a 50% pay raise and other demands (the actual average teachers' monthly salary is less than $100/month).
	www.1worldcommunication.org /boliviadetailedreports.htm (9662 words)

	Hotels, Aparthotels in Cochabamba, Lodging Reservation - Bolivia Contact
		Visit Cochabamba, capital of the Gastronomy and of the flowers.
		Department of Cochabamba - the heart of Bolivia!
		This is city which holds the same name is located in the warm valley, is very near the tour interest places with cultural and natural of extraordinary beauty, besides having a variety of places of cultural interest, most olapazf which are near to the city.
	www.boliviacontact.com /hotels-cochabamba.html (133 words)

	BOLIVIA: GAS BILL PASSES, PROTESTS EXPLODE
		In Cochabamba, campesinos and factory workers led a massive march through the center of the city on June 1 for the same consensus demands of nationalization and a constitutional assembly.
		In Cochabamba department, cocaleros say they will blockade a main highway through the Chapare on June 6 if the nationalization issue is not resolved.
		On May 23, some 5,000 Bolivian coca growers (cocaleros) from the Chapare region of Cochabamba department arrived in La Paz after a four-day, 200-kilometer march from the town of Caracollo in Oruro department to press for national control of oil and natural gas resources and the convening of a constitutional assembly.
	ww4report.com /node/570/print (2652 words)

	Volunteer Bolivia \|\| Bolivia
		The city of Cochabamba, for example, became internationally known in April 2000 when the local population refused to except the sale of its local water supply to transnational companies.
		Third in size, Cochabamba is home to approximately 800,000 people and the largest open-air market in the country.
		Nestled in a high valley (8,430 ft./ 2570 Mts.) and surrounded by numerous small-farming villages, the department of Cochabamba produces a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
	www.volunteerbolivia.org /bolivia.htm (285 words)

	Architecture
		The El Mirador neighborhood is located in the North Eastern area of the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
		Cochabamba is known as the Garden City because everyone has a garden in their yard.
		But on a positive note, Cochabamba's Cercado district has the highest Human Development in all of Bolivia (2nd is Santa Cruz, 3rd is La Paz).
	tunari.tripod.com /id16.html (581 words)

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		The expert meeting in communication that took place 6–7 October in the city of Cochabamba (Bolivia) provided a venue not only for bringing together specialized consultants but also for forming a regional working group to continuously advise PAHO on the use of communication for tuberculosis control.
		The specific recommendations of the Cochabamba workshop aim to work towards participating in the design of strategies and communication plans for all the countries of the Region.
		There was a discussion on the need to have diagnoses of the situation to enable the design strategies and communication plans, different methodologies for carrying out diagnoses, the need to involve different sectors and actors in the design of strategies and plans, and ways to institutionalize communication plans based on data and participatory schemes.
	www.paho.org /English/AD/DPC/CD/tb-taller-cochabamba-oct-05.htm (1837 words)

	Bolivia Herps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Crossing the road to the Rio Caine and Parque Nacional Torotoro, Cochabamba Department.
		March 14, 2005, crossing the Old Cochabamba-Santa Cruz Highway west of Pojo, Cochabamba department, approximately at S17º43.763' W64º54.041', 2475 m.
		On the Khara Huasi side road in the Siberia area, Santa Cruz department, approximately S17º50' W64º42', 2500 m.
	personal.riverusers.com /~calliope/boliviaherps.html (106 words)

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