Totora Municipality

Totora
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Municipality
Totora

Location within Bolivia

Coordinates: BO 17°42′S 65°11′W / 17.700°S 65.183°W / -17.700; -65.183
Country  Bolivia
Department Cochabamba Department
Province Carrasco Province
Seat Totora
Government
  Mayor Nicolas Rosas Jaldin
  President Gabriel Zurita
Elevation 9,200 ft (2,800 m)
Population (2001)
  Total 12,961
  Ethnicities Quechua
Time zone -4 (UTC-4)

Totora Municipality is the first municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Totora.

Subdivision

Totora Municipality is divided into four cantons.

Canton Inhabitants (2001)[1] Seat
Totora Canton 10,203 Totora
Arepucho Canton 360 Arepucho
Icuna Canton 199 Icuna
Tiraque "C" Canton 2,199 Tiraque "C"

Languages

The languages spoken in the municipality are mainly Quechua and Spanish.[2]

Language Inhabitants
Quechua 11,671
Aymara 72
Guaraní 7
Another native 16
Spanish 4,967
Foreign 32
Only native 7,060
Native and Spanish 4,645
Only Spanish 322

References

  1. (Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística
  2. obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

Coordinates: 17°42′00″S 65°11′00″W / 17.7°S 65.1833°W / -17.7; -65.1833

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