Tacopaya Municipality Explained

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]

Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:

Cantons

The municipality is divided into two cantons. They are (their seats in parentheses):

Languages

The languages spoken in the Tacopaya Municipality are mainly Quechua and Spanish.[2]

LanguageInhabitants
Quechua10,766
Aymara123
Guaraní3
Another native 132
3,309
Foreign9
Only native7,552
Native and Spanish3,236
Only Spanish74

References

-17.8167°N -66.65°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ine.gov.bo Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
  2. http://obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo / Observatorio Bolivia Democrático