1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Bolivia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Cochabamba—841,276, America/La_Paz, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cochabamba is GeoNames ID 3919968. Its recorded administrative path is Cochabamba → Bolivia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cochabamba occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Cochabamba ranks 665 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Bolivia entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 95. Its 841,276 population value is 0.63 times the 1,336,355 median for the country cohort and 1.03 times the 816,326 regional median. Cochabamba is rank 2 among the 2 selected Bolivia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Cochabamba's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Cochabamba's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Santa Cruz de la Sierra at 318.929 km with 1,831,434 recorded people; Arequipa at 582.479 km with 1,195,700 recorded people; Salta at 829.121 km with 520,683 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 510.192 km. Compared with Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Cochabamba's recorded population is 0.46 times as large. Against Cochabamba, Santa Cruz de la Sierra follows Santa Cruz Department → Bolivia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Bolivia cohort, uses the shared America/La_Paz identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cochabamba's. Against Cochabamba, Arequipa follows Provincia de Arequipa → Arequipa → Peru in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Peru cohort rather than Bolivia, uses America/Lima instead of America/La_Paz, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cochabamba's. Against Cochabamba, Salta follows Departamento Capital → Salta → Argentina in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Argentina cohort rather than Bolivia, uses America/Argentina/Salta instead of America/La_Paz, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Cochabamba's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,123 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cochabamba's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3919968, the coordinate pair 17.3820 / 66.1600, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 3904906 at 318.929 km bind Cochabamba to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cochabamba's reference point is 17.3820° south and 66.1600° west. The IANA identifier America/La_Paz is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Cochabamba's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Cochabamba's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cochabamba's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cochabamba, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Cochabamba's closest other entries in this atlas are Santa Cruz de la Sierra (318.929 km), Arequipa (582.479 km), Salta (829.121 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.