Arani Municipality

Arani Municipality
Municipality
Arani
Arani Municipality Location o the Arani Municipality athin Bolivie
Coordinates: 17°34′0″S 65°46′0″W
Kintra	Bolivie
Depairtment	Cochabamba Depairtment
Province	Arani Province
Seat	Arani
Govrenment
• Mayor	Vicente Rojas Camacho (2007)
• Preses	Ramiro Montaño Orellana (2007)
Area
• Total	214 km2 (83 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	11,542
• Ethnicities	Quechuas

Arani Municipality is the first municipal section o the Arani Province in the Cochabamba Depairtment, Bolivie. Its seat is Arani. At the time o census 2001 the municipality haed 11,542 inhabitants.

It is bordered tae the north bi the Tiraque Province, tae the east bi the Vacas Municipality, tae the sooth bi the Mizque Province an tae the wast bi the Punata Province.

Subdiveesion

The municipality consists o the follaein three cantons:

Canton	Inhabitants (2001)	Seat	Inhabitants (2001)
Arani Canton	6,978	Arani / Jarani	3,512
Collpaciaco Canton	3,190	Collpaciaco / Qullpayaku	246
Pocoata Canton	1,374	Pocoata / Puquqwata	685

Population

The fowk are predominantly indigenous citizens o Quechua descent.

Ethnic group	%
Quechua	87.2
Aymara	0.4
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos	0.2
No indigenous	12.1
Ither indigenous groups	0.1

Festivities

Ivery year on 24 August the population o Arani celebrates ane o its maist important Catholic festivities, Virgen La Bella, dedicatit tae the Virgin Mary, whose image is veneratit wi hintle devotion bi the residents an fowk frae abroad.

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  Virgen María La Bella
• 
  San Bartolomé kirk in Arani which keeps the shrine o the Virgen La Bella

Freemit airtins

• Arani Municipality: Population data and map Archived 2014-11-28 at the Wayback Machine