Official Name: | Tiraque Municipality |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Cochabamba Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Tiraque Province |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Tiraque |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Fidel Felix Salazar Bustamante (2008) |
Leader Title1: | President |
Leader Name1: | Gabriel Inturias Ríos (2007) |
Established Title: | Foundation |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 35017 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Quechuas |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -17.4333°N -104°W |
Tiraque Municipality is the first municipal section of the Tiraque Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. At the time of census 2001 - still including Shinahota Canton (now Shinahota Municipality) - it had a population of 35,017. Its seat is Tiraque.
The municipality is divided into two cantons. They are (their seats in parentheses):
In 2009 Shinahota Canton (also named Central Busch Canton) got the status of a municipality. [1] Now Shinahota Municipality with its seat Shinahota is the second municipal section of the Tiraque Province.