Tacopaya Municipality is the second
municipal section of the
Arque Province
Arque is a rural province in Cochabamba Department in the eastern cordillera of the South American state of Bolivia.
Geography
The province is surrounded by the provinces of Tapacarí in the northwest, Quillacollo in the northeast, Capinota i ...
in the
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 ...
in
Bolivia
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. Its seat is
Tacopaya. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 11,658 inhabitants.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
(Spanish)
Geography
Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:
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Cantons
The municipality is divided into two cantons. They are (their seats in parentheses):
* Tacopaya Canton - (Tacopaya)
* Ventilla Canton - (Ventilla)
Languages
The languages spoken in the Tacopaya Municipality are mainly Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
**So ...
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 ...
.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo / Observatorio Bolivia Democrático
(Spanish)
References
Municipalities of the Cochabamba Department
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