Misplaced Pages

Villa Rosario de Wilacala

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (February 2010) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the German article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Villa Rosario de Wilacala}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Village in La Paz Department, Bolivia
Villa Rosario de Wilacala Wilaqala
Village
Villa Rosario de Wilacala is located in BoliviaVilla Rosario de WilacalaVilla Rosario de WilacalaLocation within Bolivia
Coordinates: 15°21′S 69°3′W / 15.350°S 69.050°W / -15.350; -69.050
Country Bolivia
DepartmentLa Paz Department
ProvinceEliodoro Camacho Province
MunicipalityMocomoco Municipality
CantonVilla Rosario de Wila Khala Canton
Elevation13,990 ft (4,264 m)
Population
 • Total303
 • EthnicitiesAymara
Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

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.

Wilacala is the Hispanicized spelling of Aymara: Wilaqala, wila = blood or red, qala = stone, hard or quarry: So the name can mean "Red stone", "Blood stone" or "Red quarry".

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%) .

Sacrifice (Wilancha) in Wilaqala on the Aymara New Year (Willka Kuti) celebrated on June 21

References

  1. National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia Archived September 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)
  2. www.katari.org (Aymara - Spanish) Wila: Sangre. adj. Color rojo..
  3. www.katari.org (Aymara - Spanish) Qala: Piedra, duro. Cantera..
  4. Moco Moco Municipality Archived May 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine: population data and map

External links

15°21′26″S 69°02′37″W / 15.3572°S 69.0436°W / -15.3572; -69.0436

La Paz Department
Capital: La Paz
Provinces
Municipalities
(and seats)
Mountains
Protected areas
Stub icon

This La Paz Department geography article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: