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| Villa Rosario de Wilacala Wilaqala | |
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| Village | |
  Villa Rosario de Wilacala Location within Bolivia | |
| Coordinates: 15°21′S69°3′W / 15.350°S 69.050°W | |
| Country |  |
| Department | La Paz Department |
| Province | Eliodoro Camacho Province |
| Municipality | Mocomoco Municipality |
| Canton | Villa Rosario de Wila Khala Canton |
| Elevation | 13,990 ft (4,264 m) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 303 |
| • Ethnicities | Aymara |
| Time zone | BST (UTC-4) |
Villa Rosario de Wilacala is a village in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Villa Rosario de Wila Khala Canton, one of the five cantons of the Mocomoco Municipality which is the second municipal section of the Eliodoro Camacho Province. The village is situated 4,264 m high at the north-western edge of the Muñecas Mountain Range (Cordillera Muñecas) near the border to Peru. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 303. [1]
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales a mostly flat region in the east of Bolivia.
On the level below municipalities, Bolivia is divided into 1374 cantons (cantones).
Mocomoco or Muqu Muqu (Aymara) is one of five municipalities of the Eliodoro Camacho Province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Mocomoco.
Wilacala is the Hispanicized spelling of Aymara : Wilaqala, wila = blood or red, [2] qala = stone, hard or quarry: [3] So the name can mean "Red stone", "Blood stone" or "Red quarry".
Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers. Aymara, along with Spanish, is one of the official languages of Bolivia and parts of Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language.
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground.
The people in the Mocomoco Municipality are mainly Aymara (93.84%) and most citizens speak Aymara (92.68%) followed by Spanish (5.69%) and Quechua (1.25%) . [4]
The Aymara or Aimara people are an indigenous nation in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America; about 1 million live in Bolivia, Peru and Chile. Their ancestors lived in the region for many centuries before becoming a subject people of the Inca in the late 15th or early 16th century, and later of the Spanish in the 16th century. With the Spanish American Wars of Independence (1810–25), the Aymaras became subjects of the new nations of Bolivia and Peru. After the War of the Pacific (1879–83), Chile acquired territory occupied by the Aymaras.
Spanish or Castilian is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.
