Achacachi Municipality

Achacachi Municipality is ane o sax municipalities o the Omasuyos Province in the La Paz Depairtment in Bolivie. Its seat is Achacachi.

Achacachi Municipality
Municipality
Loch Wiñaymarka, the soothren pairt o Loch Titicaca
Achacachi Municipality Location o the Achacachi Municipality athin Bolivie
Coordinates: 16°5′0″S 68°40′0″W
Kintra	Bolivie
Depairtment	La Paz Depairtment
Province	Omasuyos Province
Seat	Achacachi
Govrenment
• Mayor	Constancio Gutierrez
• Preses	Bernabé Paucara Bautista (2007)
Area
• Total	1072 km2 (414 sq mi)
Elevation	3823 m (12,543 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	70,503
• Ethnicities	Aymara
Website	http://www.achacachi.gob.bo/index.php

The municipality is situatit in the northren Altiplano o the Bolivie Andes region on the eastren shore o Lake Titicaca bordered tae the north bi the Larecaja Province, tae the east bi the Los Andes Province, tae the sooth-east bi the Huarina Municipality, tae the wast bi the Santiago de Huata Municipality, tae the sooth bi Huatajata Municipality an Chúa Cocani Municipality (these fower municipalities wur cantons o the Achacachi Municipality till 2005, 2009, an 2010, respectively), tae the sooth-wast bi Loch Wiñaymarka an the northren pairt o Lake Titicaca, an tae the north-wast bi the Ancoraimes Municipality.

Population

The fowk are predominantly indigenous citizens o Aymara descent (95.04 %).

References

• www.ine.gov.bo / census 2001: Achacachi Municipality

Freemit airtins

• Achacachi Municipality: population data an map Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine (still showin Huarina, Santiago de Huata, Huatajata, an Chúa Cocani as cantons)