Totora Municipality
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Totora Municipality is the first municipal section
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...

 of the Carrasco Province
Carrasco Province (Bolivia)
Carrasco is a province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its capital is Totora.- Subdivision :Carrasco Province is divided into six municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons.Entre Ríos Municipality was created in 2004....

 in the Cochabamba Department
Cochabamba Department
Cochabamba is one of the nine component departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products due to Cochabamba's geographical position. It has an area of 55,631 km². Its population, in the 2007 census, was 1,750,000...

, 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 Totora
Totora, Cochabamba
Totora is a town in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. It is the seat of the Carrasco Province....

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Subdivision

Totora Municipality is divided into four cantons.
Canton Inhabitants (2001) Seat
Totora Canton  10,203 Totora
Totora, Cochabamba
Totora is a town in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. It is the seat of the Carrasco Province....

Arepucho Canton  360 Arepucho
Icuna Canton  199 Icuna
Tiraque "C" Canton  2,199 Tiraque "C"

Languages

The languages spoken in the municipality are mainly 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...

 and 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...

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Language Inhabitants
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...

11,671
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...

72
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...

7
Another native 16
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...

4,967
Foreign 32
Only native 7,060
Native and Spanish 4,645
Only Spanish 322

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