Tomina is a province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

 in the Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.-Geography:...

 in Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. Its seat is Padilla

Padilla, Bolivia

Padilla is a small town in the Chuquisaca Department of Bolivia, located southeast by road from Tomina Province. It is the centre of the municipality of the same name...

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Subdivision

Tomina Province is divided into five municipalities

Municipalities of Bolivia

Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...

 which are partly further subdivided into cantons.

Section	Municipality	Inhabitants (2001)	Seat	Inhabitants (2001)
1st	Padilla Municipality	12,562	Padilla Padilla, Bolivia Padilla is a small town in the Chuquisaca Department of Bolivia, located southeast by road from Tomina Province. It is the centre of the municipality of the same name...	2,714
2nd	Tomina Municipality	9,060	Tomina Tomina Tomina is the seat of Tomina Municipality located in the Tomina Province in the Chuquisaca Department of Bolivia. At the time of census 2001 it had 983 inhabitants. .- External links :*...	983
3rd	Sopachuy Municipality	7,241	Sopachuy	1,478
4th	Villa Alcalá Municipality	4,034	Villa Alcalá	838
5th	El Villar Municipality	4,585	El Villar El Villar El Villar is a village in the province of Valencia and autonomous community of Valencian Community, Spain....	486

The people

The people are predominantly indigenous

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 citizens of Quechuan

Quechuas

Quechuas is the collective term for several indigenous ethnic groups in South America who speak a Quechua language , belonging to several ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.The Quechuas of Ecuador call themselves as well as their...

 descent.

Ethnic group	Padilla Municipality (%)	Tomina Municipality (%)	Sopachuy Municipality (%)	Villa Alcalá Municipality (%)	El Villar Municipality (%)
Quechua Quechuas Quechuas is the collective term for several indigenous ethnic groups in South America who speak a Quechua language , belonging to several ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.The Quechuas of Ecuador call themselves as well as their...	55.1	83.8	84.5	29.9	55.2
Aymara	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.2
Guaraní, Chiquitos Chiquitos Chiquitos means "little ones" in Spanish. The Spanish Conquistadores chose this name for the people living in the rain savannas of what is now the eastern parts of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia, when they found the small doors of the Indian huts in the region.Today, this area is called Gran... , Moxos Moxos people The Moxos, also known as the Mojos, are an indigenous people living around the head-waters of the Madeira River in northern Bolivia, particularly on both banks of the Mamore River. They submitted to Inca domination, but in 1564 gallantly repulsed the Spaniards. A century later, however, the Jesuits...	0.6	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.7
Not indigenous Indigenous peoples of the Americas The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...	43.5	15.8	147	68.5	43.3
Other indigenous groups	0.3	0.2	0.4	1.5	0.5

Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

Languages

The languages spoken in the province are mainly Spanish and Quechua.

Language	Padilla Municipality	Tomina Municipality	Sopachuy Municipality	Villa Alcalá Municipality	El Villar Municipality
Quechua Quechua languages Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...	2,181	7,831	6,261	1,167	1,264
Aymara Aymara language Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia...	29	23	10	7	15
Guaraní Guaraní language Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní , is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí–Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay , where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and half of...	6	4	3	3	1
Another native	2	2	3	1	0
Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	11,585	4,418	3,003	3,576	4,190
Foreign	27	12	9	9	4
Only native	250	4,036	3,791	176	146
Native and Spanish	1,951	3,803	2,478	997	1,123
Only Spanish	9,635	616	526	2,579	3,067

Tourist attractions

Padilla Municipality is situated within the Iñao National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area

Iñao National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area

Iñao National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area is a protected area in the Chuquisaca Department Bolivia, situated in the provinces of Belisario Boeto, Tomina , Hernando Siles and Luis Calvo .Within...

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