Guaqui Municipality is the second
municipal section of the
Ingavi Province
Ingavi is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. This is where the Battle of Ingavi occurred on November 18, 1841 and where the World Heritage Site of Tiwanaku is situated.
During the presidency of Eliodoro Villazón the province was f ...
in the
La Paz Department,
Bolivia
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. Its seat is
Guaqui
Guaqui is a railhead and port in Bolivia on Lake Titicaca. A ferry (a car float) connects with the Peruvian railhead and port on Puno. It served as location of Inca ruins prior to the arrival of the Spanish. The towns current church sites on what ...
.
Division
The municipality consists of only one
canton, Guaqui Canton, which is identical to the municipality.
The people
The people are predominantly
indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
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citizens of
Aymara
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 ...
descent.
Places of interest
Some of the tourist attractions of the municipality are:
www.gobernacionlapaz.gob.bo
Tourist guide by the government of the department
* Guaqui festivity from July 23 to July 25 celebrated in honour of Apostle James
* Apostle James church of Guaqui built between 1625 and 1784
* Guaqui port
See also
* Achachi Qala
* Jach'a Uma Chuwani
* Pukara
Pukara (Aymara and Quechuan "fortress", Hispanicized spellings ''pucara, pucará'') is a defensive hilltop site or fortification built by the prehispanic and historic inhabitants of the central Andean area (from Ecuador to central Chile and nor ...
* Qala Waxrani
* Quta Willk'i
* Tiwanaku River
Tiwanaku River (also spelled ''Tiwanacu'') or Wakira River (Aymara, hispanicized ''Cuaquira, Guaquira'') is a Bolivian river southeast of Lake Titicaca in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, in the municipalities of Guaqui and Tiwanaku, and ...
* Wanq'uni
References
www.ine.gov.bo / census 2001: Guaqui Municipality
External links
Guaqui Municipality: population data and map
(Spanish)
Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia)
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