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Esteban Arze (
Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
: T'arata) is a
province A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
in
Cochabamba Department Cochabamba (, , ), from Quechua ''qucha'' or ''qhucha'', meaning "lake", ''pampa'' meaning "plain", is one of the nine departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the " granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products from ...
,
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 Tarata. Many people from the Esteban Arze province (Tarata and Arbieto) have migrated abroad,mainly to Argentina and to the Washington DC area (Arlington county, Fairfax county, and Alexandria Virginia, and Montgomery County Maryland.) https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/only-bridge-matters-now


Subdivision

The province is divided into four
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' ...
which are further subdivided into
cantons A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, th ...
. The municipalities with their seats are:


Places of interest

* Laguna La Angostura


Holidays and Feasts

The province's primary feast is in honor of Saint Severin, which is celebrated the last Sunday of November in the town of Tarata.


See also

* Atuq Wachana * Jatun Mayu * Jatun Urqu * Jatun Urqu (Matarani) *
Jaya Mayu Jaya Mayu (Quechua ''jaya'' pungency, locoto, ''mayu'' river) is a Bolivian river in the Cochabamba Department, Esteban Arce Province, Anzaldo Municipality.
* Misuk'ani *
Puka Qawiña Puka Qawiña (Aymara ''puka'' colored, ''qawiña'' gable, "red gable", also spelled ''Puca Cahuiña'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the Cochabamba Department, at the border of the Esteban Arce Province, Anzaldo Municipal ...
*
Pukara Pukara ( Aymara and Quechuan "fortress", Hispanicized spellings ''pucara, pucará'') is a defensive hilltop site or fortification built by the prehispanic and historic inhabitants of the central Andean area (from Ecuador to central Chile and ...


External links


Map of Esteban Arze Province

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Provinces of Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub