Omasuyos Province
Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Main other Omasuyos (Hispanicized spelling) or Uma Suyu[1] (Aymara uma water, suyu region, "water region")[2] is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. Its capital is Achacachi (Jach'a Q'achi).
The province is situated in the Altiplano bordered to the north by the Muñecas Province, to the northeast by the Larecaja Province, to the southeast by the Los Andes Province, to the south and west by Lake Titicaca and to the northwest by the Eliodoro Camacho Province.
Geography
The Cordillera Real traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:[3][4][5]
Subdivision
The province is divided into six municipalities.[6][7]
| Municipality | Inhabitants (2001) [8] | Inhabitants
(2012)[9] |
Seat | Inhabitants (2001) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Achacachi | 70,503 | 46,058 | Achacachi | 7,540 |
| Huarina | (included in Achacachi in 2001) | 7,948 | Huarina | 1,308 |
| Santiago de Huata | 8,562 | Santiago de Huata | 576 | |
| Huatajata | 3,927 | Huatajata | 576 | |
| Chua Cocani | 5,003 | Chua Cocani | 852 | |
| Ancoraimes | 15,199 | 13,136 | Ancoraimes | 561 |
° including separated cantons
Huarina and Santiago de Huata, and Huatajata and Chua Cocani received the status of municipalities in 2005, 2009, and 2010, respectively. Formerly they were cantons of the Achacachi Municipality.
See also
References
External links
Template:Commons category-inline
Template:La Paz Department Template:Authority control
Template:OmasuyosProvince-geo-stub
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedministerio - ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedbertonio - ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedigm1 - ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedigm2 - ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedine - ↑ www.bolivia.com (Spanish)
- ↑ www.planguarani.com Template:Webarchive (Spanish)
- ↑ National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia Template:Webarchive (Spanish)
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".