San Pedro de Curahuara Municipality | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
| Country |  Bolivia |
| Department | La Paz Department |
| Province | Gualberto Villarroel Province |
| Seat | San Pedro de Curahuara |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (BOT) |
San Pedro de Curahuara Municipality is the first municipal section of the Gualberto Villarroel Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is San Pedro de Curahuara. [1] It had 8,858 inhabitants in 2010.
In addition to San Pedro de Curahuara, the municipality also comprises hamlets, among which:
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.
Caranavi Province is one of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian La Paz Department and is situated in the department's eastern parts. The province was created by Law 1401 on 16 December 1992 from a portion of what was then Nor Yungas Province. The creation of the province had been a local cause embraced by Ramiro Revuelta, a Deputy in the national legislature who was assassinated on November 28, 1992.
Gualberto Villarroel is a province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is San Pedro de Curahuara de Carangas.
Pedro Domingo Murillo is a province in the Bolivian La Paz Department. It was created on January 8, 1838, with the name Cercado and on October 17, 1912, during the presidency of Eliodoro Villazón, its name was changed in honor of Pedro Domingo Murillo, protagonist of the revolution of June 16, 1809.
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Coordinates: 17°35′00″S68°00′00″W / 17.5833°S 68°W
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