Tacacoma Municipality
Encyclopedia
Tacacoma Municipality is the third municipal section
of the Larecaja Province
in the La Paz Department
, Bolivia
. Its seat is Tacacoma
.
Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo
Municipalities of Bolivia
Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...
of the Larecaja Province
Larecaja Province
Larecaja is a province in the Bolivian department of La Paz. Its capital is Sorata.- Subdivision :Larecaja Province is divided into eight municipalities which are partly further subdivided into cantons.- Languages :...
in the La Paz Department
La Paz Department (Bolivia)
The La Paz Department of Bolivia comprises with a 2001 census population of 2,350,466 inhabitants. It is situated at the western border of Bolivia, sharing Lake Titicaca with Peru. It contains the mighty Cordillera Real that reaches altitudes of . Northeast of the Cordillera Real are the Yungas,...
, Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
. Its seat is Tacacoma
Tacacoma
Tacacoma is a location in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Tacacoma Municipality, the third municipal section of the Larecaja Province.- References :...
.
Languages
The languages spoken in the Tacacoma Municipality are mainly Aymara, Spanish and Quechua.| Language | Inhabitants |
|---|---|
| Quechua Quechua languages Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably... |
1.058 |
| Aymara Aymara language Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia... |
4.389 |
| Guaraní Guaraní language Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní , is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí–Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay , where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and half of... |
1 |
| Another native | 17 |
| Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... |
4.321 |
| Foreign | 6 |
| Only native | 1.599 |
| Native and Spanish | 3.389 |
| Only Spanish | 933 |
Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo