Official Name: | Tarabuco Municipality |
Other Name: | Municipio de Tarabuco |
Native Name: | Tarapuku munisipyu |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the Tarabuco Municipality within Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Bolivia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Chuquisaca Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Yamparáez Province |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | election on April 4, 2010 |
Leader Title1: | President |
Established Title: | Foundation |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (municipality) |
Established Date2: | 18 November 1912 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 1023 |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 19,554 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Yampará (Quechua), Aymara, other indigenous, Guaraní |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -19.1667°N -119°W |
Elevation M: | 3500 |
Blank Name: | INE |
Blank Info: | 010601 |
Tarabuco Municipality is the first municipal section of the Yamparáez Province in the Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Tarabuco. Its population is overwhelmingly indigenous: of 10,530 people 15 or older in the 2001 Census, 9,834 (or 93,40%) self-identified with an indigenous people; 9,779 to the Quechua people, 29 Aymara, 15 to another indigenous people, and 7 as Guaraní.[1] On 6 December 2009, its residents voted in favor of indigenous autonomy for the municipality, with a vote of 90.8%.[2]