Official Name: | Tolata 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: | Germán Jordán Province |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Tolata |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Title1: | President |
Established Title: | Foundation |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 5,316 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -17.5333°N -66°W |
Tolata Municipality is the third municipal section of the Germán Jordán Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Tolata.
Tolata was the site of a massacre of approximately 100 peasants by the Banzer regime in January 1974.[1] [2]