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Tinguipaya Municipality
Tinguipaya Municipality is the first municipal section of the Tomás Frías Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p .... Its seat is Tinguipaya. Subdivision The municipality consists of the following cantons: *Anthura, created 9 November 1992 *Tinguipaya, created 29 December 1949 Geography The municipality is located in the interadean zone with heights between 3,100 m and 4,882 m Malmisa being the highest elevation. Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below: The people The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive) See also * Jatun Mayu References External links Tinguipaya Municipality: population da ... [...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] |
Wila Salla (Oruro-Potosí)
Wila Salla ( Aymara ''wila'' red, ''salla'' rocks, cliffs, "red rocks") is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Oruro Department, Eduardo Abaroa Province, Challapata Municipality, and in the Potosí Department, Tomás Frías Province, Tinguipaya Municipality Tinguipaya Municipality is the first municipal section of the Tomás Frías Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, ye .... It lies southeast of Kuntur Nasa. References Mountains of Oruro Department {{Oruro-geo-stub ... [...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] |
Aymara People
Aymara may refer to: Languages and people * Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language ** Aymara language, the main language within that family ** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today includes only the endangered Jaqaru/Kawki language * Aymara people, the native ethnic group identified with the speakers of Altiplano Aymara Culture * ''Corazón Aymara'' (English: ''Aymara Heart''), 1925 Bolivian silent feature film directed by Pedro Sambarino * Grupo Aymara, Bolivian folk troupe of traditional music of pre-Hispanic and contemporary music of the Andes * Socialist Aymara Group (Spanish: ''Grupo Aymara Socialista''), left-wing indigenous political group in Bolivia Places * Aymaraes Province, the largest of seven provinces of the Apurímac Region in Peru * Aymara Lupaca Reserved Zone, a protected area in southeastern Peru Nature * ''Aymaramyia'', genus of crane bird found in Peru * ''Aymaratherium'', genus of extinct sloth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechuas
Quechua people (, ; ) or Quichua people, may refer to any of the aboriginal people of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru. Although most Quechua speakers are native to Peru, there are some significant populations in Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina. The most common Quechua dialect is Southern Quechua. The Kichwa people of Ecuador speak the Kichwa dialect; in Colombia, the Inga people speak Inga Kichwa. The Quechua word for a Quechua speaker is ''runa'' or ''nuna'' ("person"); the plural is ''runakuna'' or ''nunakuna'' ("people"). "Quechua speakers call themselves Runa -- simply translated, 'the people.'" Some historical Quechua people are: * The Chanka people, who lived in the Huancavelica, Ayacucho, and Apurímac regions of Peru. * The Huanca people of the Junín Region of Peru, who spoke Quechua before the Incas did. * The Inca, who established the largest empire of the pre-Columbian e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are, but many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. While some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions, the Indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies, and empires. Some had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture, and gold smithing. Many parts of the Americas are still populated by Indigenous peoples; some countries have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jach'a Q'awa
Jach'a Q'awa ( Aymara ''jach'a'' big, ''q'awa'' little river, ditch, crevice, fissure, gap in the earth, "big brook" or "big ravine", Hispanicized spelling ''Jachcha Khaua'') is a mountain in the Cordillera de los Frailes in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the Potosí Department, Tomás Frías Province, Tinguipaya Municipality, north of the Pillku Mayu (red river"). It lies southeast of the village of Janq'u Laqaya ''(Jankho Lacaya)'' and the mountain named Janq'u Laqaya ''(Jhanco Lacaya)'' and northwest of Pari Chata Pari Chata (Aymara ''pari'' red hot, Pukina ''chata'' mountain, "red hot mountain", also spelled Parichata) is a mountain in the Andes in Bolivia. It is located in the Cordillera de los Frailes in the Potosí Department, Tomás Frías Province .... The river Jach'a Q'awa originates on the west side of the mountain. It flows to the south. References Mountains of Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potosí Department
Potosí (; Aymara language, Aymara: ''Putusi''; qu, P'utuqsi) is a Departments of Bolivia, department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km2 with 823,517 inhabitants (2012 census). The capital is the city of Potosí. It is mostly a barren, mountainous region with one large plateau to the west, where the largest Salt pan (geology), salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located. Cerro Rico, Cerro Potosí was the richest province in the Spanish empire, providing a great percentage of the silver that was Spanish treasure fleet, shipped to Europe. Potosi is also the location of the San Cristóbal mine (Bolivia), San Cristóbal silver, zinc and lead mines, developed by the US-company Apex Silver Mines Limited of Colorado and in November 2008 sold to the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation. Government The chief executive office of Departments of Bolivia, Bolivia departments (since May 2010) is the governor; until then, the office was called the prefect, and until 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wila Salla (Bolivia)
Wila Salla ( Aymara ''wila'' red, ''salla'' rocks, cliffs, "red rocks") is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Potosí Department, Tomás Frías Province Tomás Frías is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is Potosí which is also the capital of the department. The province is named after the former president Tomás Frías Ametller. Location Tomás ..., on the border of the municipalities of Tinguipaya and Yocalla. References Mountains of Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
, image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square patchwork with the (top left to bottom right) diagonals forming colored stripes (green, blue, purple, red, orange, yellow, white, green, blue, purple, red, orange, yellow, from top right to bottom left) , other_symbol = , other_symbol_type = Dual flag: , image_coat = Escudo de Bolivia.svg , national_anthem = " National Anthem of Bolivia" , image_map = BOL orthographic.svg , map_width = 220px , alt_map = , image_map2 = , alt_map2 = , map_caption = , capital = La Paz Sucre , largest_city = , official_languages = Spanish , languages_type = Co-official languages , languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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