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Copacabana Municipality, La Paz
Copacabana Municipality is the first municipal section of the Manco Kapac Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Copacabana. Isla del Sol (''Island of the Sun'') and Chelleca island are situated within the municipality. Subdivision The municipality is divided into three cantons. The people The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Aymaran descent. Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo Languages The languages spoken in the Copacabana Municipality are mainly Aymara and Spanish. Places of interest * Chinkana * Iñaq Uyu * Pachat'aqa * Pillkukayna * Yampupata Peninsula See also * Virgen de Copacabana The Virgen de Copacabana (literal translation: Virgin of Copacabana; figurative translation: Our Lady of Copacabana; variant: Blessed Virgin of the Candelaria, Our Lady of Copacabana) is the patron saint of Bolivia. She is venerated in Bolivia du ... References obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo External links Municipaliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copacabana, Bolivia
Copacabana is the main Bolivian town on the shore of Lake Titicaca. The town has a large 16th-century shrine, the Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana, dedicated to Our Lady of Copacabana, the patron saint of Bolivia. The town is a tourism destination in Bolivia. It is also known for its trout and quaint atmosphere. Built between Mount Calvario and Mount Niño Calvario, the town has approximately 6,000 inhabitants. Copacabana's religious celebrations, cultural heritage and traditional festivals are well known throughout Bolivia. Boats leave for Isla del Sol, the sacred Inca island, from Copacabana. Copacabana is served by Copacabana Airport. History During the wars of independence, the Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana was despoiled of most of its rich ornaments and gifts, and ruthless plundering by faithless custodians in the course of political disturbances has further contributed to impoverish it. The edifices, originally very handsome, are in a state of sad neglect. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zampaya Canton
Zampaya is a small location in the La Paz Department in Bolivia situated in the Copacabana Municipality, the first municipal section of the Manco Kapac Province. It is the seat of the Zampaya Canton. References See also * Yampupata Peninsula Yampupata is a Bolivian peninsula of Lake Titicaca situated in the north-western part of the Copacabana Peninsula in the La Paz Department (Bolivia), La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province, Copacabana Municipality, Bolivia, Copacabana Municipa ... (in Zambaya Canton) {{coord, 16, 06, S, 69, 06, W, display=title, region:BO_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Populated places in La Paz Department (Bolivia) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachat'aqa
Pachat'aqa (other spellings ''Pachataca, Pachataka''), possibly erroneously also named ''Horca del Inca'' in Spanish, is an archaeological site in Bolivia situated near Lake Titicaca Lake Titicaca (; es, Lago Titicaca ; qu, Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. By volume of water and by surface area, i .... It lies in the La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province, Copacabana Municipality, near Copacabana. File:Copacabana Bolivia desde la Horca del Inca.jpg, Copacabana and Lake Titicaca as seen from Pachat'aqa See also * Chinkana * Iñaq Uyu References Archaeological sites in Bolivia Buildings and structures in La Paz Department (Bolivia) Tourist attractions in La Paz Department (Bolivia) {{SouthAm-archaeology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iñaq Uyu
Iñaq Uyu (Aymara, ''iñaqa'' a woman of noble caste of the Incas, ''uyu'' pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery, "pen of the ''iñaqa'', the woman of the noble caste of the Incas", other spellings ''Iñac Uyu, Iñac Uyo, Iñakuyu, Iñak Uyu, Iñak Uyo''), also called Aklla Wasi (Quechua ''aklla'' chosen, selected, virgins of the sun, ''wasi'' house, "house of the virgins of the sun"), is an archaeological site in Bolivia situated on the Isla de la Luna, an island of Lake Titicaca. It is located in the La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province, Copacabana Municipality In Incan society, the societal structure was very rigid. Often those of belonging to the royal class structure did not mix with the lower classes. Iñaq Uyu dates back to around 1000 C.E. to 1500 C.E. Like the other archaeological sites, Chinkana and Pillkukayna, Iñaq Uyu is located on an island of Lake Titicaca; however, Iñaq Uyu is situated on the Isla de la Luna, rather than the larger Isla Del Sol where Chinkana an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinkana
Chinkana (Quechua for labyrinth)Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Quechua-Spanish dictionary, Cusco, Peru, 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) is an archaeological site in Bolivia situated on the Isla del Sol, an island of Lake Titicaca. It is located in the La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province Manco Kapac is a province in the Bolivian department of La Paz. Its capital is Copacabana. Subdivision Manco Kapac Province is divided into three municipalities which are partly further subdivided into cantons. Places of interest * Chink ..., Copacabana Municipality. See also * Iñaq Uyu * Pillkukayna References Archaeological sites in Bolivia Buildings and structures in La Paz Department (Bolivia) Tourist attractions in La Paz Department (Bolivia) {{SouthAm-archaeology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guaraní Language
Guaraní (), specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani ( "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay (along with Spanish), where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and where half of the rural population are monolingual speakers of the language. It is spoken by communities in neighboring countries, including parts of northeastern Argentina, southeastern Bolivia and southwestern Brazil, and is a second official language of the Argentine province of Corrientes since 2004; it is also an official language of Mercosur. Guaraní is one of the most widely spoken American languages, and remains commonly used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities. This is unique among American languages; language shift towards European colonial languages (in this case, the other official language of Spanish) has otherwise be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua Languages
Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an 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 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 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 Inca Empire. The Inca were one among many peoples in present-day Peru who already spok ... [...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] |
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] |
Moxos People , or Moxos, an ancient Armenian province
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Moxos may refer to: * Moxos plains, or ''Llanos de Moxos'', a region of Bolivia * Moxos Province, Bolivia * Moxo people, an indigenous people of Bolivia * Llanos de Moxos (archaeology) * Jesuit Missions of Moxos * Moxoene Moxoene or Mokk' ( hy, Մոկք, translit=Mokkʿ, ku, Miks) was a territory of Kingdom of Armenia and later Sasanian Armenia, located east of Arzanene from south of Lake Van to north of Bohtan river. The territory was ruled by a local dynasty. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarani People
Guarani, Guaraní or Guarany may refer to Ethnography * Guaraní people, an indigenous people from South America's interior (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia) * Guaraní language, or Paraguayan Guarani, an official language of Paraguay * Guarani dialects, spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay * Guarani languages, a group of languages, including Guarani, in the Tupí-Guaraní language subfamily * Eastern Bolivian Guarani, historically called Chiriguanos, living in the eastern Bolivian foothills of the Andes. Also called Ava Guarani. Economics * Paraguayan guaraní, the currency of Paraguay Education * The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, a subunit of Dartmouth College Geography * Guarani, Minas Gerais, Brazil * Guarani de Goiás, Brazil * Guarani das Missões, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Guarani Aquifer, a large underground water reservoir in South America Literature and music * ''The Guarani'', an 1857 novel by José de Alencar * ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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