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,
Bolivia
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. 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 and they only occupy local dwellings during
carnival
Carnival is a Catholic Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent. The main events typically occur during February or early March, during the period historically known as Shrovetide (or Pre-Lent). Carnival typi ...
or other festivals, or on business trips.
Important days include Independence Day on 6 August; the feast day of
Saint Augustine 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 words ''Thapa Qhari'', "nest of men", or settlement.
The town was founded on 23 January 1826, by
Antonio José de Sucre.
In June 1836 the Congress of Tapacarí was held in the town to address the issue of giving president
Andrés de Santa Cruz
Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana (; 30 November 1792 – 25 September 1865) was a Bolivian general and politician who served as interim president of Peru in 1827, the interim president of Peru from 1836 to 1838 and the sixth president of B ...
the power to establish the
Peru–Bolivian Confederation. The congress met for ten days under the chairmanship of vice-president
Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar
Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuéllar (18 July 1782 – 29 July 1842) was a Bolivian lawyer, general and politician who served as the de facto eighth president of Bolivia briefly in 1841. He also served as the third vice president from 1835 to 1839 ...
. The congress granted the requested powers and granted other beneficences.
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Populated places in Cochabamba Department
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