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The Bolivian city of 'Cobija' is located ca. 600 km (373 mi.) north of La Paz in the Amazon Basin on the border of Brazil. Cobija lies on banks of the Río Acre across from the Brazilian city Brasiléia. Cobija lies at an elevation of ca. 280 m (920 ft.) above sea level and has a tropical and rainy climate.
Cobija has approximately 25,000 inhabitants, is the seat of a university and capital of the Bolivian Pando Department. Cobija has two airports and is connected by one road to El Choro in the Beni Department, which is not always passable during the rainy season.
Cobija was established in 1906 under the name ''Bahía'' and received its current name in 1908 in commemoration of the former Bolivian sea port Cobija (Lamar) on the Pacific, which has belonged to Chile since the Salpeter War. Cobija experienced an economic boom in the 1940s as the location of an India rubber industry.