Villa Rosario de Wilacala explained

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]

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-15.3572°N -69.0436°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ine.gob.bo National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia
  2. http://www.katari.org/diccionario/diccionario.php?listletter=aymara&display=26 www.katari.org
  3. http://www.katari.org/diccionario/diccionario.php?listletter=aymara&display=12 www.katari.org
  4. http://www.ine.gob.bo/pdf/AtlasMunicipal/020402.pdf Moco Moco Municipality