Sacaba
City in Bolivia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Templo de San Pedro en Sacaba SPS003: Sejas Llanos LF, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Sacaba is a city in Bolivia, in Cochabamba. About 180,726 people live in the city proper, making it the 6th largest city of Bolivia in our atlas.
It lies at 17.40° S, 66.04° W, about 2,710 m (8,891 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/La_Paz time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Sacaba. Green dots: other major cities of Bolivia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Sacaba has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk). The warmest month is usually Nov, with average highs near 23°C (74°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 1°C (34°F). Around 498 mm (20 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jan.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
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- Cochabamba · 13 km
- Quillacollo · 25 km
- Oruro · 129 km
- Sucre · 199 km
- Potosí · 244 km
- La Paz · 245 km
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra · 306 km
- Tarija · 480 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3906194 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q995727 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Templo de San Pedro en Sacaba SPS003: Sejas Llanos LF, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)