# Tapacarí

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Place in Cochabamba Department, Bolivia

Tapacarí San Agustín de Tapacarí[1] Villa de Tapacarí[2] Map of Bolivia showing Tapacarí province Tapacarí Location within Bolivia Coordinates: 17°30′53″S 66°37′15″W / 17.51472°S 66.62083°W / -17.51472; -66.62083 Country Bolivia Department Cochabamba Department Province Tapacarí Province Municipality Tapacarí Municipality Canton Tapacarí Canton Government • Mayor Pedro Gutierrez Cruz (2007) Elevation 9,833 ft (2,997 m) Population (2001) • Total 411 [3] Time zone UTC-4 (BOT)

**Tapacarí**, **Thapa Qhari** is a town and the capital of [Tapacarí Province](/source/Tapacar%C3%AD_Province) in [Cochabamba Department](/source/Cochabamba_Department), [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia).[4] It is located at an elevation of 2,997 m. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 411.[3] Most of the population lives either in adjacent rural areas or in the city of [Cochabamba](/source/Cochabamba) and they only occupy local dwellings during [carnival](/source/Carnival) or other festivals, or on business trips.[1]

Important days include Independence Day on 6 August; the feast day of [Saint Augustine](/source/Augustine_of_Hippo) 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.[5]

## History

The name Tapacarí comes from the [Aymara](/source/Aymara_language) words *Thapa Qhari*, "nest of men", or settlement.

The town was founded on 23 January 1826, by [Antonio José de Sucre](/source/Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_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](/source/Andr%C3%A9s_de_Santa_Cruz) the power to establish the [Peru–Bolivian Confederation](/source/Peru%E2%80%93Bolivian_Confederation). The congress met for ten days under the chairmanship of vice-president [Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar](/source/Mariano_Enrique_Calvo_Cuellar). The congress granted the requested powers and granted other beneficences.[6][7][8]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Felber-11_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Felber-11_1-1) [Felber 2010](#CITEREFFelber2010), p. 11

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Villa de Tapacarí (Variant - V)](https://geonames.nga.mil/geon-ags/rest/services/RESEARCH/GIS_OUTPUT/MapServer/0/query?outfields=*&where=full_name%3D+%27Villa+de+Tapacar%C3%AD%27) at [GEOnet Names Server](/source/GEOnet_Names_Server), [United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency](/source/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-INEB-Tapacarí_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-INEB-Tapacarí_3-1) ["Censo de Poblacion y Vivienda – 2001, Poblacion por Departamentos, Provincias, Secciones Municipales, Localidades y Organizaciones Comunitarias: Tapacarí"](http://www.ine.gob.bo/comunitaria/comunitariaVer.aspx?Depto=03&Prov=11&Seccion=01). Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150924042820/http://www.ine.gob.bo/comunitaria/comunitariaVer.aspx?Depto=03&Prov=11&Seccion=01) from the original on 24 September 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Tapacarí (Approved - N)](https://geonames.nga.mil/geon-ags/rest/services/RESEARCH/GIS_OUTPUT/MapServer/0/query?outfields=*&where=full_name%3D+%27Tapacar%C3%AD%27) at [GEOnet Names Server](/source/GEOnet_Names_Server), [United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency](/source/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Felber-27_5-0)** [Felber 2010](#CITEREFFelber2010), pp. 27, 31

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Vargas Ugarte, Rubén](/source/Rub%C3%A9n_Vargas_Ugarte) (1971). *Historia General del Perú: Volume 8, La República (1833-1843)* (first ed.). Lima, Perú: Carlos Milla Batres. p. 128. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [490232957](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/490232957).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Basadre, Jorge](/source/Jorge_Basadre) (2005). *Historia de la República del Perú 1822 - 1933: La época fundacional de la República (1822-1842)*. (Volume 2 of *Historia de la República del Perú 1822 - 1933*). Lima, Perú: Comercio. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-9972-205-64-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9972-205-64-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Pons Muzzo, Gustavo (1953). *Historia del Perú: Epoca de la República*. (Volume 4 of *Historia del Perú*). Lima, Perú: Ministerio de Educación Pública. p. 81. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [19485168](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/19485168).

## Further reading

- Felber, Emma (2010). [*From Centre to Margin: Memory, Mobility and Social Change in a Bolivian Town*](http://research.gold.ac.uk/6447/1/ANT_thesis_Felber_2013.pdf) (PDF). Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140530234600/http://research.gold.ac.uk/6447/1/ANT_thesis_Felber_2013.pdf) (PDF) from the original on 30 May 2014.

## External links

- ["Atlas Municipal: Tapacarí (Provincial population data and map)"](http://www.ine.gob.bo/pdf/AtlasMunicipal/031101.pdf) (PDF). 2 November 2011. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120401072456/http://www.ine.gob.bo/pdf/AtlasMunicipal/031101.pdf) (PDF) from the original on 1 April 2012.

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