Official Name: | Guanay Municipality |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the Viacha Municipality within Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Bolivia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | La Paz Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Larecaja Province |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Eddy Loayza Guzmán (2007) |
Leader Title1: | President |
Leader Name1: | Lady Saavedra de Chávez (2007) |
Established Title: | Foundation |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 3911 |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 11528 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -15.4947°N -67.9°W |
Elevation M: | 500 |
Guanay Municipality (Aymara: Wanay) is the second municipal section of the Larecaja Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Guanay.
The Cordillera Real traverses the Guanay Municipality. Some of the highest peaks of the range, Chachakumani and Ch'iyar Juqhu, lie within the borders of the municipality. More mountains are listed below:[1]
The languages spoken in the Guanay Municipality are mainly Spanish, Aymara and Quechua.
Language | Inhabitants |
---|---|
Quechua | 1.653 |
Aymara | 3.405 |
Guaraní | 5 |
Another native | 94 |
10.064 | |
Foreign | 86 |
Only native | 737 |
Native and Spanish | 4.123 |
Only Spanish | 5.942 |
Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo