| Official Name: | Tapacarí |
| Other Name: | San Agustín de Tapacarí Villa de Tapacarí[1] |
| Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Bolivia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Bolivia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Department |
| Subdivision Name1: | Cochabamba Department |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Tapacarí Province |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Tapacarí Municipality |
| Subdivision Type4: | Canton |
| Subdivision Name4: | Tapacarí Canton |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Pedro Gutierrez Cruz (2007) |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population As Of: | 2001 |
| Population Total: | 411 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Timezone: | BOT |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Coordinates: | -17.5147°N -66.6208°W |
| Elevation M: | 2997 |
Tapacarí, Thapa Qhari is a town and the capital of Tapacarí Province in Cochabamba Department, Bolivia.[2] 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 and they only occupy local dwellings during carnival or other festivals, or on business trips.
Important days include Independence Day on 6 August; the feast day of 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.
The name Tapacarí comes from the 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.[4] [5] [6]