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The airport was born with a single 2649 meter post office and a terminal on Guillermo Killman Avenue. [citation needed] [when?] In 1988, as an expansion plan, due to the fact that the old terminal was becoming more and more crowded and a longer runway was needed for more modern and larger aircraft, a new 3798 meter runway was created and put into operation in 1990, and a new air terminal was ...
The center of the department is marked by the temperate xeric valleys of Cochabamba (known as Kanata), Alto Cochabamba, and Capinota. These valley areas are marked by dry montane forests, and semi-arid orographies. Temperate climates year-round feature considerable diurnal temperature variation due to the high altitude.
Cochabamba was the first place rugby union in Bolivia was formally established. Cochabamba was featured as a location in the story in the 1983 film, Scarface. Powerful drug lord Alejandro Sosa resided there, governed large coca plantations and owned cocaine labs whereupon further refining, would be shipped to Tony Montana in Florida.
Elevation. 13,000 ft (4,000 m) ... Time zone: UTC-4 (BOT) Alalay Municipality is the third municipal section of the Mizque Province in the Cochabamba Department ...
The black-hooded sunbeam is found only in the Andes of northern Bolivia, mainly in the departments of La Paz and Cochabamba. In elevation it mostly ranges between 2,500 and 4,200 m (8,200 and 13,800 ft) but there are records as low as 1,800 m (5,900 ft). It inhabits cloud forest and humid to semihumid montane scrublands. [5]
Capinota is situated at an altitude of 2,380 m where the rivers Río Arque and Río Rocha meet to become the Río Caine and the Río Grande downstream. It is located 66 kilometers south of the department capital Cochabamba on the northern river bank of Río Arque, at 17°42′54″S 66°15′49″W / 17.71500°S 66.26361°W / -17. ...
Pasorapa, which comes from paso rápido, (quick step), is a small town in Bolivia located in the southeast of the department of Cochabamba. Pasorapa lies at an elevation of 2,364 m. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 1,114. [1] Most of the inhabitants speak Spanish, but some others speak Quechua.
It crosses the Cochabamba valley basin in a westerly direction, turning south east after 65 kilometres (40 mi) and after another 50 km (31 mi) joining the Arque River at and an elevation of 2,350 m (7,710