{{Infobox settlement <!--See the Table at Infobox Settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage--> <!-- Basic info ----------------> |official_name = Tapacarí |other_name = San Agustín de Tapacarí<ref name="Felber-11">{{harvnb|Felber|2010|page=11}}</ref><br>Villa de Tapacarí<ref>{{GEOnet2|32FA883FF19C3774E0440003BA962ED3|Villa de Tapacarí (Variant - V)}}, [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]]</ref> |native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type = <!--For Town or Village (Leave blank for the default City)--> |motto = <!-- images and maps -----------> |image_skyline =Bolivia_Cochabamba_Tapacarí.png |imagesize = |image_caption = '''Map of Bolivia showing Tapacarí province''' |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_shield = |shield_size = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |image_dot_map = |dot_mapsize = |dot_map_caption = |dot_x = |dot_y = |pushpin_map = Bolivia<!-- the name of a location map as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Location_map --> |pushpin_label_position =bottom |pushpin_map_caption =Location within Bolivia <!-- Location ------------------> |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = [[Image:Flag of Bolivia.svg|25px]] [[Bolivia]] |subdivision_type1 = [[Departments of Bolivia|Department]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Cochabamba Department]] |subdivision_type2 = [[Provinces of Bolivia|Province]] |subdivision_name2 = [[Tapacarí Province]] |subdivision_type3 = [[Municipalities of Bolivia|Municipality]] |subdivision_name3 = Tapacarí Municipality |subdivision_type4 = [[Cantons of Bolivia|Canton]] |subdivision_name4 = [[Tapacarí Canton]] <!-- Politics -----------------> |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title =Mayor |leader_name =Pedro Gutierrez Cruz (2007) |leader_title1 = <!-- for places with, say, both a mayor and a city manager --> |leader_name1 = |established_title = <!-- Settled --> |established_date = <!-- Area ---------------------> |area_magnitude = |unit_pref =Imperial <!--Enter: Imperial, if Imperial (metric) is desired--> |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = <!-- ALL fields dealing with a measurements are subject to automatic unit conversion--> |area_land_km2 = <!--See table @ Template:Infobox Settlement for details on automatic unit conversion--> |area_water_km2 = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_sq_mi = |area_water_percent = |area_urban_km2 = |area_urban_sq_mi = |area_metro_km2 = |area_metro_sq_mi = |area_blank1_title = |area_blank1_km2 = |area_blank1_sq_mi = <!-- Population -----------------------> |population_as_of = 2001 |population_footnotes = |population_note =<ref name="INEB-Tapacarí" /> |population_total = 411 |population_density_km2 = |population_density_sq_mi = |population_metro = |population_density_metro_km2 = |population_density_metro_sq_mi = |population_urban = |population_density_urban_km2 = |population_density_urban_sq_mi = |population_blank1_title =Ethnicities |population_blank1 = |population_blank2_title = |population_blank2 = |population_density_blank1_km2 = |population_density_blank1_sq_mi = <!-- General information ---------------> |timezone = BOT |utc_offset = -4 |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = {{coord|17|30|53|S|66|37|15|W|region:BO|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = <!--for references: use <ref> tags--> |elevation_m = 2997 |elevation_ft = <!-- Area/postal codes & others --------> |postal_code_type = <!-- enter ZIP code, Postcode, Post code, Postal code... --> |postal_code = |area_code = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Tapacarí''', '''Thapa Qhari''' is a town and the capital of [[Tapacarí Province]] in [[Cochabamba Department]], [[Bolivia]].<ref>{{GEOnet2|32FA883FF19D3774E0440003BA962ED3|Tapacarí (Approved - N)}}, [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]]</ref> It is located at an elevation of 2,997 m. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 411.<ref name="INEB-Tapacarí">{{Cite web|title=Censo de Poblacion y Vivienda – 2001, Poblacion por Departamentos, Provincias, Secciones Municipales, Localidades y Organizaciones Comunitarias: Tapacarí|publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia|url=http://www.ine.gob.bo/comunitaria/comunitariaVer.aspx?Depto=03&Prov=11&Seccion=01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924042820/http://www.ine.gob.bo/comunitaria/comunitariaVer.aspx?Depto=03&Prov=11&Seccion=01|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Most of the population lives either in adjacent rural areas or in the city of [[Cochabamba]] and they only occupy local dwellings during [[carnival]] or other festivals, or on business trips.<ref name="Felber-11" />
Important days include Independence Day on 6 August; the feast day of [[Augustine of Hippo|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.<ref name="Felber-27">{{harvnb|Felber|2010|pages=27, 31}}</ref>
==History== The name Tapacarí comes from the [[Aymara language|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]] the power to establish the [[Peru–Bolivian Confederation]]. 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.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Vargas Ugarte, Rubén|author-link=Rubén Vargas Ugarte|year=1971|title=Historia General del Perú: Volume 8, La República (1833-1843)|edition=first|publisher=Carlos Milla Batres|location=Lima, Perú|page=128|oclc=490232957}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author-link=Jorge Basadre|author=Basadre, Jorge|year=2005|title=Historia de la República del Perú 1822 - 1933: La época fundacional de la República (1822-1842)|series=(Volume 2 of ''Historia de la República del Perú 1822 - 1933'')|publisher=Comercio|location=Lima, Perú|isbn=978-9972-205-64-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Pons Muzzo, Gustavo|year=1953|title=Historia del Perú: Epoca de la República|series=(Volume 4 of ''Historia del Perú'')|publisher=Ministerio de Educación Pública|location=Lima, Perú|page=81|oclc=19485168}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist|2}}
== Further reading == * {{Cite book|last=Felber |first=Emma |date=2010 |title=From Centre to Margin: Memory, Mobility and Social Change in a Bolivian Town |series=Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London |url=http://research.gold.ac.uk/6447/1/ANT_thesis_Felber_2013.pdf |format=PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530234600/http://research.gold.ac.uk/6447/1/ANT_thesis_Felber_2013.pdf |archive-date=30 May 2014 |url-status=live}}
==External links== * {{Cite web|date=2 November 2011|title=Atlas Municipal: Tapacarí (Provincial population data and map)|url=http://www.ine.gob.bo/pdf/AtlasMunicipal/031101.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401072456/http://www.ine.gob.bo/pdf/AtlasMunicipal/031101.pdf|archive-date=1 April 2012|url-status=live}} {{-}}
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