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Villa Rosario de Wilacala

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Country
  
Bolivia

Time zone
  
BST (UTC-4)

Population
  
303 (2001)

Province
  
Eliodoro Camacho Province

Department
  
La Paz Department

Elevation
  
4,264 m

Municipality
  
Mocomoco

Villa Rosario de Wilacala

Canton
  
Villa Rosario de Wila Khala Canton

Weather
  
4°C, Wind NW at 6 km/h, 97% Humidity

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%) .

References

Villa Rosario de Wilacala Wikipedia