Ixiamas Municipality | |
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Municipality | |
  Ixiamas Municipality Location within Bolivia | |
| Coordinates: 13°0′S68°0′W / 13.000°S 68.000°W | |
| Country |  Bolivia |
| Department | La Paz Department |
| Province | Abel Iturralde Province |
| Seat | Ixiamas |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 5,625 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (BOT) |
Ixiamas Municipality is the first municipal section of the Abel Iturralde Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Ixiamas.
The La Paz Department of Bolivia comprises 133,985 square kilometres (51,732 sq mi) with a 2012 census population of 2,706,359 inhabitants. It is situated at the western border of Bolivia, sharing Lake Titicaca with adjacent Peru. It contains the Cordillera Real, which reaches altitudes of 6.6 kilometers (4.1 mi). Northeast of the Cordillera Real are the Yungas, the steep eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains that make the transition to the Amazon River basin to the northeast. The capital of the department is the city of La Paz and is the administrative city and seat of government/national capital of Bolivia.
Abel Iturralde is one of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian La Paz Department. It is situated in its northern part. Its name honors Abel Iturralde Palacios, a Bolivian politician. Madidi National Park is partially in this province.
Tacana is a Western Tacanan language spoken by some 1,800 Tacana people in Bolivia out of an ethnic population of 5,000. They live in the forest along the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers in the north of La Paz Department. Numerous dialects, now extinct, have been attributed to Tacana: Ayaychuna, Babayana, Chiliuvo, Chivamona, Idiama (Ixiama), Pamaino, Pasaramona, Saparuna, Siliama, Tumupasa, Uchupiamona, Yabaypura, and Yubamona.
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Combaya is a town in the La Paz Department, Bolivia.
Ixiamas is a town and municipality in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. It is on the level pampa 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of the Cordillera Central foothills.
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Tiwanaku is a village in the La Paz Department, Bolivia with a population of 860 persons. Towards the south of the village there's the archaeological site of Tiwanaku.
Mapiri is a town in the La Paz Department, Bolivia.
Tito Yupanqui is a town in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. It was named after an indigenous artist, Francisco Tito Yupanqui, a 16th-century wood sculptor who sculptured a famous statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as Our Lady of Candles.
Mocomoco or Muqu Muqu (Aymara) is a location in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Mocomoco Municipality in the Eliodoro Camacho Province.
San Andrés de Machaca is a town in the La Paz Department, Bolivia.
Taraco, La Paz is a town in the La Paz Department, Bolivia.
San Pedro de Tiquina is a town in the La Paz Department, Bolivia.
The Movement for Sovereignty is a leftist, indigenist Bolivian political party founded by dissidents of the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP). Its leader, and fourth-place candidate for Governor of La Paz department in the 2010 regional election is Lino Villca. Other MAS-IPSP activists involved in founding the MPS include Óscar Chirinos, Miguel Machaca, and Rufo Calle. The party's colors are blue, white, and yellow.
Ixiamas Airport is an airport serving the town of Ixiamas in the La Paz Department of Bolivia.
Coordinates: 13°S68°W / 13°S 68°W
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