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Alalay Municipality
Alalay Municipality is the third municipal section of the Mizque Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Alalay. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below: Languages The languages spoken in the Alalay Municipality are mainly Quechua and Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana .... (Spanish) References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of Bolivia
Bolivia is a unitary state consisting of nine departments ( es, departamentos). Departments are the primary subdivisions of Bolivia, and possess certain rights under the Constitution of Bolivia. Each department is represented in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly—a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Each department is represented by four Senators, while Deputies are awarded to each department in proportion to their total population. Out of the nine departments, La Paz was originally the most populous, with 2,706,351 inhabitants as of 2012 but the far eastern department of Santa Cruz has since surpassed it by 2020; Santa Cruz also claims the title as the largest, encompassing . Pando is the least populated, with a population of 110,436. The smallest in area is Tarija, encompassing . Departments Former Departments By population Notes See also * ISO 3166-2:BO, the ISO codes for the departments of Bolivia. * Bolivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puka Qallpa
Puka Qallpa (Quechua ''puka'' red, ''qallpa'' terrain after the harvest, also spelled ''Puca Khallpa'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Mizque Province, Alalay Municipality. It lies in the northwest of Kachi Q'asa and northeast of Inka Pirqa Inka Pirqa or Inkapirqa (Quechua ''Inka'' Inca, ''pirqa'' (Kichwa ''pirka'') wall, "Inca wall", Hispanicized spelling ''Incaperca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canchis Province Canchis Province is .... The Puka Urqu Mayu ("red mountain river") flows along its western slope. Its waters flow to the Jatun Mayu ("big river") in the south. References Mountains of Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal features rising from prolonged cohabitation, rather than natural genealogical changes that would stem from a common protolanguage. Aymara is an agglutinating and, to a cert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua Language
Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers as of 2004.Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan language. It is perhaps most widely known for being the main language family of the Inca Empire. The Spanish encouraged its use until the Peruvian War of Independence, Peruvian struggle for independence of the 1780s. As a result, Quechua variants are still widely spoken today, being the co-official language of many regions and the second most spoken language family in Peru. History Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanq'uni (Cochabamba)
Wanq'uni (Aymara ''wanq'u'' guinea pig, ''-ni'' a suffix, "the one with the guinea pigs", also spelled ''Huancuni'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes which reaches a height of approximately . It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Mizque Province, Alalay Municipality. It lies northeast of Inka Pirqa Inka Pirqa or Inkapirqa (Quechua ''Inka'' Inca, ''pirqa'' (Kichwa ''pirka'') wall, "Inca wall", Hispanicized spelling ''Incaperca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canchis Province Canchis Province is .... References Mountains of Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siwinqani (Mizque)
Siwinqani (Aymara ''siwinqa'' a kind of cactus, ''-ni'' a suffix, "the one with the ''siwinqa'' plant", also spelled ''Sivingani'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes which reaches a height of approximately high . It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Mizque Province, Alalay Municipality Alalay Municipality is the third municipal section of the Mizque Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Alalay. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below: Languages The languages spo .... References Mountains of Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rirpu
Rirpu (Quechua for mirror, possibly erroneously also spelled ''Sirpu'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Mizque Province, Alalay Municipality. It lies southwest of Wanq'uni Huancune (possibly from Aymara ''wanq'u'' guinea pig) is a volcano in the Barroso mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Tacna Region, Tacna Province Tacna is the largest of four provinces in the Department of .... References Mountains of Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putu Phutunqu
Putu Phutunqu (Aymara ''putu'' vault, ''phutunqu'' hole, pit, crater, also spelled ''Putu Putuncu'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Carrasco Province, Pocona Municipality and in the Mizque Province, Alalay Municipality. Putu Phutunqu lies southeast of Inka Pirqa Inka Pirqa or Inkapirqa (Quechua ''Inka'' Inca, ''pirqa'' (Kichwa ''pirka'') wall, "Inca wall", Hispanicized spelling ''Incaperca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canchis Province Canchis Province is .... References Mountains of Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatun Ch'utu (Cochabamba)
Jatun Ch'utu (Quechua ''jatun'' big, ''ch'utu'' cone, "big cone", also spelled ''Jatun Chutu'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes which reaches a height of approximately . It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Mizque Province, Alalay Municipality Alalay Municipality is the third municipal section of the Mizque Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Alalay. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below: Languages The languages spo .... References Mountains of Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochabamba Department
Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa Jach'a Suyu, es, Departamento de Cochabamba , qu, Quchapampa Suyu), from Quechua ''qucha'' or ''qhucha'', meaning "lake", ''pampa'' meaning "plain", is one of the nine departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products from its geographical position. It has an area of 55,631 km2. Its population in the 2012 census was 1,758,143. Its capital is the city of Cochabamba, known as the "City of Eternal Spring" and "The Garden City" because of its spring-like temperatures all year. History The Cochabamba valley was inhabited for over a thousand years due to its fertile productive soils and climate. Archaeological evidence suggests that the initial valley inhabitants were of various ethnic indigenous groups. Tiwanaku, Tupuraya, Mojocoya, Omereque and Inca inhabited the valley at various times before the Spanish arrived. The first Spanish inhabitant of the Valley was Garci Ruiz de Orell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inka Pirqa (Bolivia)
Jatun Urqu (Quechua ''Inka'' Inca, ''pirqa'' wall, "Inca wall", also spelled ''Inca Perkha'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes which reaches a height of approximately . It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Mizque Province, Alalay Municipality Alalay Municipality is the third municipal section of the Mizque Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Alalay. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below: Languages The languages spo .... It lies northeast of Jatun Urqu. References Mountains of Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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