Official Name: | Pazña Municipality |
Native Name: | Pasña |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the Pazña Municipality within Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Bolivia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Oruro Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Poopó Province |
Subdivision Type4: | Cantons |
Subdivision Name4: | 5: Pazña, Totoral, Peñas, Avicaya, and Urmiri |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Pazña |
Leader Title: | Mayor (interim) |
Leader Name: | Gualberto Abad Olmos Leaños (2010) |
Leader Title1: | Council President |
Leader Name1: | Martin Sabino Quispe Alarcón (2010) |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (vice-canton) |
Established Date2: | 1904 |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (municipality) --> |
Established Date3: | 6 January 1961 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | ~7,000 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Quechua (Tapacarí and Cóndor Apacheta ayllus), Urus |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -18.5°N -119°W |
Pazña Municipality is a municipality of the Poopó Province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Pazña.[1]
Municipal governments in Bolivia are divided into executive and legislative branches. The Mayor of Pazña is the head of the city government, elected by general election for a term of five years. The Municipal Council is the legislative branch.
The current mayor of Pazña is Gualberto Abad Olmos Leaños of the National Unity Front, who took office in June 2010 following the resignation of Víctor Centeno (of the Movement for Socialism). A new mayor will be selected in a special election expected to be held in 2011.
The municipality used to be divided into five cantons.
The languages spoken in the Pazña Municipality are mainly Quechua, Spanish and Urus.