Vallegrande Municipality

Vallegrande Municipality
Municipality
Vallegrande Municipality Location of Vallegrande within Bolivia
Coordinates: 18°45′S63°55′W / 18.750°S 63.917°W / -18.750; -63.917
Country	Bolivia
Department	Santa Cruz Department
Province	Vallegrande Province
Capital	Vallegrande
Area
• Total	3,191 km2 (1,232 sq mi)
Elevation	2,030 m (6,660 ft)
Population  (2012)
• Total	17,208
• Density	5.4/km2 (14/sq mi)

Vallegrande Municipality is the first municipal section of the Vallegrande Province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Vallegrande.

Administrative divisions

The municipality of Vallegrande is divided into sixteen cantons.

• Alto Seco (cantón)
• Chaco (cantón)
• El Bello (cantón)
• Guadalupe (cantón)
• Khasa Monte (cantón)
• Loma Larga (cantón)
• Mankaillpa (cantón)
• Masicurí (cantón)
• Naranjos (cantón)
• Piraymiri (cantón)
• San Juan del Tucumansillo (cantón)
• Santa Ana (cantón)
• Santa Rosita (cantón)
• Sitanos (cantón)
• Temporal (cantón)
• Vallegrande (cantón)

Languages

The predominant language in the Vallegrande Municipality is Spanish.

Language	Inhabitants
Quechua	405
Aymara	103
Guaraní	12
Another native	21
Spanish	16,129
Foreign	80
Only native	61
Native and Spanish	446
Only Spanish	15,688

References

• obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo
• www.ine.gov.bo / census 2001: Vallegrande Province

External links

• "Map of Vallegrande Province". La Comisión para la Gestión Integral del Agua en Bolivia (CGIAB). Archived from the original on 12 October 2007.
• "Map of Vallegrande Province". Unidad de Análisis de Políticas Sociales y Económicas (UDAPE), Government of Bolivia. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014.