Official Name: | Copacabana Municipality |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the Arani Municipality within Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Bolivia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | La Paz Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Manco Kapac Province |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Copacabana |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Juan Armando Callisaya Quispe |
Leader Title1: | President |
Leader Name1: | Adela Calizaya de Mamani |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 174 |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 14586 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Aymara |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -16.15°N -69.0333°W |
Elevation M: | 3850 |
Copacabana Municipality is the first municipal section of the Manco Kapac Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Copacabana.
Isla del Sol (Island of the Sun) and Chelleca island are situated within the municipality.
The municipality was formerly, before the abolition of Bolivian cantons in 2009, divided into three cantons.
Canton | Inhabitants (2001)[1] | Seat |
---|---|---|
8,194 | Copacabana | |
2,388 | Lokha | |
4,004 | Zampaya | |
The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Aymaran descent.
Ethnic group | % |
---|---|
Quechua | 0.9 |
Aymara | 95.9 |
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos | 0.2 |
3.0 | |
Other indigenous groups | 0.1 |
The languages spoken in the Copacabana Municipality are mainly Aymara and Spanish.
Language | Inhabitants |
---|---|
Quechua | 185 |
Aymara | 11,825 |
Guaraní | 6 |
Another native | 4 |
10,713 | |
Foreign | 81 |
Only native | 3,020 |
Native and Spanish | 8,858 |
Only Spanish | 1,857 |