whose life was dramatized in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver Renato Prada Oropeza, professor, semiologist, writer Thäddeus Haenke (1761-1816), botanist Musicians Katia Escalera, Soprano Jaime Laredo, (b. 1941), classical violinist Los Kjarkas, Cochabambino folk music group Literature Nataniel Aguirre (1843–1888), author Adela Zamudio (1874–1925), author and poet Jesús Lara (1898–1975), author and poet Gaby Vallejo Canedo (1941), author, professor of Literature Edmundo Paz Soldán, author Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz (1931–1980), author and politician Javier del Granado (1913–1996), poet laureate Julia Urquidi (1926-2010), writer, remembered as Mario Vargas Llosa's first wife Renato Prada Oropeza (1937–2011), novelist and poet Sara Ugarte de Salamanca, poet who had the memorial built to the heroines on 1812 Óscar Únzaga de la Vega (1916–1959), journalist and historian Other Oscar Olivera (1955), environmental activist Nazis Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), German SS and Gestapo functionary Twin towns – sister cities Cochabamba is twinned with: Bergamo Italy, since 2008 Córdoba, Argentina, since 1989 Kunming, China, since 1990 Montevideo, Uruguay since 2005 Viedma, Argentina, since 2009 Caracas, Venezuela, since 2009 See also World People's Conference on Climate Change 2000 Cochabamba protests Freternindad Folklórica y Cultural Caporales Universitarios de San Simon 2018 South American Games Notes References External links Weather in Cochabamba The History of Cochabamba Cbba.info Map of Cochabamba City Populated places established in 1571 Populated places in Cochabamba Department 1571 establishments in the Spanish Empire 1571 establishments in South America