Tapacarí, Thapa Qhari is a town and the capital of
Tapacarí Province
Tapacarí is a province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Tapacarí. The province is located at a turnoff from the major highway that links Cochabamba and Oruro. It has traditionally been amongst the poorest in the departmen ...
in
Cochabamba Department
Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa Jach'a Suyu, es, Departamento de Cochabamba , qu, Quchapampa Suyu), from Quechua ''qucha'' or ''qhucha'', meaning "lake", ''pampa'' meaning "plain", is one of the nine departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the ...
,
Bolivia. It is located at an elevation of 2,997 m. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 411.
Most of the population lives either in adjacent rural areas or in the city of
Cochabamba
Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa; qu, Quchapampa) 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 630 ...
and they only occupy local dwellings during
carnival or other festivals, or on business trips.
Important days include Independence Day on 6 August; the feast day of
Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Afr ...
on 28 August, and the large fiesta of the ''Virgen de Dolores'' (Our Lady of Sorrows) the third weekend of September. There is a food and textile fair in early September that brings in the rural population as well as city folk.
History
The name Tapacarí comes from the
Aymara
Aymara may refer to:
Languages and people
* Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language
** Aymara language, the main language within that family
** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...
words ''Thapa Qhari'', "nest of men", or settlement.
The town was founded on 23 January 1826, by
Antonio José de Sucre
Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (; 3 February 1795 – 4 June 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" ( en, "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan independence leader who served as the president of Peru and as the second p ...
.
In June 1836 the Congress of Tapacarí was held in the town to address the issue of giving president
Andrés de Santa Cruz the power to establish the
Peru–Bolivian Confederation
The Peru–Bolivian Confederation was a short-lived state that existed in South America between 1836 and 1839. The country was a loose confederation between the states of Peru, divided into the Republic of North Peru and the Republic of South Pe ...
. The congress met for ten days under the chairmanship of vice-president
Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar. The congress granted the requested powers and granted other beneficences.
References
Further reading
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External links
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Populated places in Cochabamba Department
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