en Arani Municipality

Arani Municipality
Arani Municipality
Municipality
	Arani
	Arani Municipality Location of the Arani Municipality within Bolivia
	Coordinates: 17°34′0″S 65°46′0″W / 17.56667°S 65.76667°W
Country	Bolivia
Department	Cochabamba Department
Province	Arani Province
Seat	Arani
Government
• Mayor	Vicente Rojas Camacho (2007)
• President	Ramiro Montaño Orellana (2007)
Area
• Total	83 sq mi (214 km2)
Population (2001)
• Total	11,542
• Ethnicities	Quechuas
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)

Arani Municipality is the first municipal section of the Arani Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Arani. At the time of census 2001, the municipality had 11,542 inhabitants.^[1]

It is bordered to the north by the Tiraque Province, to the east by the Vacas Municipality, to the south by the Mizque Province and to the west by the Punata Province.

Subdivision

The municipality consists of the following three cantons:

Canton	Inhabitants (2001)^[1]	Seat	Inhabitants (2001)
Arani Canton	6,978	Arani / Jarani	3,512
Collpaciaco Canton^[2]	3,190	Collpaciaco / Qullpayaku	246
Pocoata Canton	1,374	Pocoata / Puquqwata	685

Population

The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.^[3]

Ethnic group	%
Quechua	87.2
Aymara	0.4
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos	0.2
Not indigenous	12.1
Other indigenous groups	0.1

Festivities

Every year on August 24 the population of Arani celebrates one of its most important Catholic festivities, Virgen La Bella, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, whose image is venerated with much devotion by the residents and people from abroad.