Official Name: | Tacopaya Municipality |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Cochabamba Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Arque Province |
Subdivision Type4: | Cantons |
Subdivision Name4: | 2 |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Tacopaya |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Ramon Quispe Mamani (2007) |
Leader Title1: | President |
Leader Name1: | Bacilo Ugarte Medrano (2007) |
Established Title: | Foundation |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 565 |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 11,658 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -17.8167°N -105°W |
Elevation M: | 4000 |
Tacopaya Municipality is the second municipal section of the Arque Province in the Cochabamba Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Tacopaya. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 11,658 inhabitants.[1]
Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:
The municipality is divided into two cantons. They are (their seats in parentheses):
The languages spoken in the Tacopaya Municipality are mainly Quechua and Spanish.[2]
Language | Inhabitants |
---|---|
Quechua | 10,766 |
Aymara | 123 |
Guaraní | 3 |
Another native | 132 |
3,309 | |
Foreign | 9 |
Only native | 7,552 |
Native and Spanish | 3,236 |
Only Spanish | 74 |