How walkable is Calacoto, La Paz?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Calacoto has a walkability score of 89 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the only neighbourhood ranked in La Paz, which scores 43 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
555 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Calacoto. The nearest grocery is about 7 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, parks, schools and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Tienda MARKA, 9 min
- Delicor, 11 min
Restaurants & bars
- Takumi Ramen House, 2 min
- Tacobar Town, 2 min
Shopping
- Ketal - calacoto, 1 min
- Shopping Plast, 1 min
Coffee
- Café Epico, 3 min
- Café Buena Vista, 4 min
Banks
- Banco Union Los Pinos, 16 min
- Banco BISA Agencia Achumani, 30 min
Parks
- Plaza Balaguer, 6 min
- Plaza de las Américas, 8 min
Schools
- U.E. Santa Rosa La Florida B, 10 min
- Colegio Calvert La Paz, 11 min
Books & libraries
- Alquimista, 9 min
- Librería Bagu, 23 min
Culture & entertainment
- Carrusel el Bosque, 3 min
- Karaokenti Karaoke Bar, 4 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Calacoto, La Paz at -16.5392, -68.0842. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 112 street intersections per km², and blocks average 83 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Calacoto, La Paz
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Calacoto, La Paz. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Questions about walking in Calacoto, La Paz
Is Calacoto walkable?
Yes. Calacoto in La Paz has a walkability score of 89 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Calacoto more walkable than the rest of La Paz?
Calacoto is more walkable than La Paz as a whole: it scores 89, against 43 for the 5 km around La Paz's centre. It is the only neighbourhood ranked in La Paz on How Walkable.
How is the walkability score of Calacoto calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Calacoto it is the average of 58 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap. It measures what is within a walk, not what the walk is like: pavements, traffic, safety, hills and heat are not part of the score.
This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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