Tacopaya Municipality
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Tacopaya Municipality is the second municipal section
of the Arque Province
in the Cochabamba Department
in Bolivia
. Its seat is Tacopaya
. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 11,658 inhabitants.
and Spanish
.
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 Arque Province
Arque Province
Arque is a rural province in Cochabamba Department in the eastern cordillera of the South American state of Bolivia. Quechua is the most commonly used language of this region.- Geography :...
in the Cochabamba Department
Cochabamba Department
Cochabamba is one of the nine component departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products due to Cochabamba's geographical position. It has an area of 55,631 km². Its population, in the 2007 census, was 1,750,000...
in 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 Tacopaya
Tacopaya
Tacopaya is a village in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. It is the seat of the Tacopaya Municipality, the second municipal section of the Arque Province.-External links:*...
. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 11,658 inhabitants.
Cantons
The municipality is divided into two cantons. They are (their seats in parentheses):- Tacopaya Canton - (Tacopaya)
- Ventilla Canton - (Ventilla)
Languages
The languages spoken in the Tacopaya Municipality are mainly QuechuaQuechua 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...
and 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...
.
| 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... |
10,766 |
| 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... |
123 |
| 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... |
3 |
| Another native | 132 |
| 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... |
3,309 |
| Foreign | 9 |
| Only native | 7,552 |
| Native and Spanish | 3,236 |
| Only Spanish | 74 |