Desaguadero Municipality

{{Short description|Municipal section in La Paz Department, Bolivia}}

File:Poste frontière desaguaderro.JPG (Peruvian side of the city), at the border Peru - Bolivia]]

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Desaguadero Municipality is the fourth municipal section of Ingavi Province in La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Desaguadero.

Division

The municipality consists of the following two cantons:[http://www.ine.gob.bo National Institute of Statistic in Bolivia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924073930/http://www.ine.gob.bo/ |date=September 24, 2011 }}

Desaguadero - 4.194 inhabitants (2001)
San Juan de Huancollo - 787 inhabitants

The people

The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Aymara descent.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)

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! Ethnic group

! %

Quechua

|align="right" |1.3

Aymara

|align="right" |92.9

Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos

|align="right" |0.2

Not indigenous

|align="right" |5.6

Other indigenous groups

|align="right" |0.1

Languages

The languages spoken in the Desaguadero Municipality are mainly Aymara and Spanish.

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! Language

! Inhabitants

Quechua

|align="right" |74

Aymara

|align="right" |3,831

Guaraní

|align="right" |2

Another native

|align="right" |0

Spanish

|align="right" |3,806

Foreign

|align="right" |21

Only native

|align="right" |959

Native and Spanish

|align="right" |2,902

Only Spanish

|align="right" |905

Places of interest

Some of the tourist attractions of the municipality are:[http://www.gobernacionlapaz.gob.bo:8001/simit/sistema/ficha_turistica/iframelapaz.php www.gobernacionlapaz.gob.bo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110509054006/http://www.gobernacionlapaz.gob.bo:8001/simit/sistema/ficha_turistica/iframelapaz.php |date=2011-05-09 }} Tourist guide by the government of the department

The international fair of Desaguadero on the Peruvian border
Desaguadero River with its avifauna and native Aymara and Uru communities along its banks. The river runs along the entire Altiplano.

References

obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20141025080026/http://www.ine.gob.bo/publicaciones/visorPdf.aspx?Codigo=020804&tipo=1 Desaguadero Municipality: population data and map] (Spanish)

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Category:Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia)