Tarabuco Municipality is the first
municipal section of the
Yamparáez Province
Yamparáez is a province in the Bolivian department of Chuquisaca. It is divided in two sections: first section with head in the town of Tarabuco, and the second section with its head in Yamparáez.
Subdivision
The province is divided into two ...
in the
Chuquisaca Department
Chuquisaca () ( ay, Chuqisaka; qu, Chuqichaka) is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the consti ...
,
Bolivia
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. Its seat is
Tarabuco
Tarabuco is a Bolivian town in the department of Chuquisaca Department, Chuquisaca, capital of the Yamparáez Province and its first section, Tarabuco Municipality. It is best known as the home of the Yampara culture. Its people host the Pujllay f ...
. Its population is overwhelmingly indigenous: of 10,530 people 15 or older in the 2001 Census, 9,834 (or 93,40%) self-identified with an indigenous people; 9,779 to the Quechua people, 29
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 ...
, 15 to another indigenous people, and 7 as
Guaraní 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
* ...
.
[Municipio de Tarabuco]
," Ministerio de Autonomías. On 6 December 2009, its residents voted in favor of indigenous autonomy for the municipality, with a vote of 90.8%.
["Las autonomías indígenas avanzan a paso lento per seguro, entre consensos e interrogantes" ''Diálogos en Democracia'', 21 March 2010 (Supplement to ''Pulso Bolivia'').]
References
Municipalities of Chuquisaca Department
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