Achacachi Municipality is one of six

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

of the Omasuyos Province in the La Paz Department in

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. Its seat is

Achacachi Achacachi is a town on the Altiplano plateau in the South American Andes in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the capital of the Omasuyos Province. History of Achacachi Achacachi, as an establishment, existed before the arrival of the Sp ...

. The municipality is situated in the northern

Altiplano The Altiplano (Spanish language, Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechuan languages, Quechua and Aymara language, Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla people, Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extens ...

of the Bolivian

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region on the eastern shore of

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bordered to the north by the

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, to the east by the Los Andes Province, to the south-east by the Huarina Municipality, to the west by the Santiago de Huata Municipality, to the south by the Huatajata Municipality and Chúa Cocani Municipality (these four municipalities were cantons of the Achacachi Municipality until 2005, 2009, and 2010, respectively),www.bolivia.com
/ref> to the south-west by

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and the northern part of Lake Titicaca, and to the north-west by the Ancoraimes Municipality.

Population

The people are predominantly

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citizens of

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 ...

descent (95.04%).

References

www.ine.gov.bo / census 2001: Achacachi Municipality

External links

Achacachi Municipality: population data and map
(still showing Huarina, Santiago de Huata, Huatajata, and Chúa Cocani as cantons) Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia) {{omasuyosProvince-geo-stub

Population

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