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Totora Municipality

Coordinates: 17°42′00″S 65°11′00″W / 17.7°S 65.1833°W / -17.7; -65.1833
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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)
 • Total12,961
 • 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

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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

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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

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  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