The parish of Cocapata has an extension of approximately 7000 km2, with more than 120 rural communities. The parish priest and his vicar attend to all these communities. In addition to evangelization, their concern is also the education of the children, youth and adults of this area.

The geography of Cocapata: it is a valley at 3,200 meters above sea level, surrounded by deeper valleys and mountains of more than 4,800 meters above sea level. In fact, to get to Cocapata from Cochabamba you have to go over 4,700 meters above sea level. The road is dirt and the 150 km that separate it from Cochabamba costs 5 hours in a 4x4 vehicle. The landscape is formed by a chain of mountains and spectacular valleys. During the trip you can see the Tunari mountain with a height of 5030 meters above sea level. During the rainy season caution should be taken due to landslides or mud that forms due to the transit of vehicles. It is frequent the fog and the rains that turn the town into mud and the summits into snow. A large part of Parroquia is part of the Bolivian Amazon, therefore, some say that Cocapata is the Gateway to the Amazon.

At the service of the parish of Cocapata are two pastoral agents: Father Kazimierz Chowaniec (pastor) and Father Stanislaw Chowaniec (vicar) and several catechists in the different communities (Quechua and Aimara Zone).

The parish community in the nucleus of Cocapata has the San José de Calasanz boarding school for the youth, the Calasanz School (from kindergarten to high school), a Calasanz Center and the Catechists' Meeting Center which is also used for the various non-formal training workshops for children, youth (young people from the village and boarding school (with 130 students)) and especially for the promotion of women and the fight against violence against women and girls.

Cocapata is an area of Quechua and Aymara origin, so in most of the communities the most spoken languages are Quechua and Spanish or Aymara and Spanish (bilingual).

In terms of socioeconomic status, the majority of the population is dedicated to small-scale, ancestral farming. The scarcity of income is causing significant internal and external migration by parents. Cocapata has a population of 18,000 inhabitants, the majority of whom are indigenous.

In the educational field, the parish of Cocapata has 12 secondary schools and more than 80 elementary schools in different communities that the Piarists are visiting as much as possible, promoting the life of faith and looking for collaborators (especially teachers and professors) to help us in catechesis.