Official Name: | Villa Rosario de Wilacala |
Native Name: | Wilaqala |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | La Paz Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Eliodoro Camacho Province |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Mocomoco Municipality |
Subdivision Type4: | Canton |
Subdivision Name4: | Villa Rosario de Wila Khala Canton |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 303 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Aymara |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -15.35°N -72°W |
Elevation M: | 4264 |
Villa Rosario de Wilacala is a village in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Villa Rosario de Wila Khala Canton, one of the five cantons of the Mocomoco Municipality which is the second municipal section of the Eliodoro Camacho Province. The village is situated 4,264 m high at the north-western edge of the Muñecas Mountain Range (Cordillera Muñecas) near the border to Peru. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 303.[1]
Wilacala is the Hispanicized spelling of Aymara: '''Wilaqala''', wila = blood or red,[2] qala = stone, hard or quarry:[3] So the name can mean "Red stone", "Blood stone" or "Red quarry".
The people in the Mocomoco Municipality are mainly Aymara (93.84%) and most citizens speak Aymara (92.68%) followed by Spanish (5.69%) and Quechua (1.25%) .[4]