Copacabana Municipality is the first municipal section of the

Manco Kapac Province Manco Kapac is a province in the Bolivian department of La Paz. Its capital is Copacabana. Subdivision Manco Kapac Province is divided into three municipalities which are partly further subdivided into cantons. Places of interest * Chink ...

in the La Paz Department,

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

. Its capital is Copacabana.

Isla del Sol Isla del Sol (Spanish language, Spanish for "Island of the Sun") is an island in the southern part of Lake Titicaca. It is part of Bolivia, and specifically part of the La Paz Department (Bolivia), La Paz Department. Geographically, the terrain is ...

(''Island of the Sun'') and Chelleca island are situated within the municipality.

Subdivision

The municipality was formerly, before the abolition of Bolivian cantons in 2009, divided into three cantons.

The people

The people are predominantly

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

citizens of Aymaran descent. Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

Languages

The languages spoken in the Copacabana Municipality are mainly

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 ...

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 countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

Places of interest

Chinkana Chinkana ( Quechua for labyrinth)Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Quechua-Spanish dictionary, Cusco, Peru, 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) is an archaeological site in Bolivia situated on the Isla del Sol Isla del Sol (Spanish language, S ...

Iñaq Uyu Iñaq Uyu ( Aymara, ''iñaqa'' a woman of noble caste of the Incas, ''uyu'' pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery, "pen of the ''iñaqa'', the woman of the noble caste of the Incas", other spellings ''Iñac Uyu, Iñac Uyo, Iñakuyu, Iñak Uyu, Iñak ...

Pachat'aqa Pachataka (also spelled Pachataca or Pachat'aqa), commonly known as the Inca Gallows, is an archaeological site in Bolivia, located near Lake Titicaca in the municipality of Copacabana, Manco Kapac Province, within the La Paz Department. ''Pa ...

Pillkukayna PillkukaynaFélix Laime Pairumani, Hacia Una Nueva Conciencia Nacional, Vol II, 2014 (other spellings ''Pilco Kayna, Pilcocayna, Pilko Kaina, Pilkokaina, Pillco Kayma'') is an archaeological site on the shore of the island of Isla del Sol in the ...

* Yampupata *

Yampupata Peninsula Yampupata is a Bolivian peninsula of Lake Titicaca situated in the north-western part of the Copacabana Peninsula in the La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province, Copacabana Municipality, Zampaya Canton. It is located near the islands Isla d ...

References

obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

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