Totora Municipality

Totora
T'utura
Municipality
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View of Totora
Totora is located in Bolivia
Totora
Totora
Location within Bolivia
Coordinates: 17°42′S 65°11′W / 17.700°S 65.183°W / -17.700; -65.183
Country Bolivia
DepartmentCochabamba Department
ProvinceCarrasco Province
SeatTotora
Government
 • MayorNicolas Rosas Jaldin
 • PresidentGabriel Zurita
Elevation
9,200 ft (2,800 m)
Population
 (2001)
 • Total
12,961
 • Ethnicities
Quechua
Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

Totora Municipality is the first municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Totora.

Subdivision

Totora Municipality is divided into four cantons.

Canton Inhabitants (2001)[1] Seat
Totora Canton 10,203 Totora
Arepucho Canton 360 Arepucho
Icuna Canton 199 Icuna
Tiraque "C" Canton 2,199 Tiraque "C"

Languages

The languages spoken in the municipality are mainly Quechua and Spanish.[2]

Language Inhabitants
Quechua 11,671
Aymara 72
Guaraní 7
Another native 16
Spanish 4,967
Foreign 32
Only native 7,060
Native and Spanish 4,645
Only Spanish 322

References

  1. ^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística
  2. ^ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

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17°42′00″S 65°11′00″W / 17.7°S 65.1833°W / -17.7; -65.1833