Tarata Municipality

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|subdivision_type1 = Department

|subdivision_name1 = Cochabamba Department

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|subdivision_name2 = Esteban Arce Province

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|seat = Tarata

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|leader_title = Mayor

|leader_name = Pedro Hipolito Corrales (2008)

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|leader_name1 = Benjamin Zurita Meneses (2008)

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Tarata Municipality (Quechua: T'arata munisipyu) is the first municipal section of the Esteban Arce Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Tarata. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 8,715 inhabitants. Along with neighboring municipalities such as Arbieto, Cliza, Tolata, and Punata, much of its population lives abroad, mainly in Argentina, Spain, Italy, and the Washington DC area in the United States.[http://obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo / Observatorio Bolivia Democrático] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218081859/http://obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ |date=2009-02-18 }} (Spanish)