Arani is a province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

 in Cochabamba Department

Cochabamba Department

Cochabamba is one of the nine component departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products due to Cochabamba's geographical position. It has an area of 55,631 km². Its population, in the 2007 census, was 1,750,000...

, Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. Its capital is Arani

Arani (Bolivia)

Arani is the capital of Arani Province and Arani Municipality located in Cochabamba Department in the center of Bolivia at an altitude of 9,400 ft . At the time of census 2001 it had 3,512 inhabitants.....

, situated about 53 km from Cochabamba

Cochabamba

Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people...

. Arani is known for its bread but also for the town's artisan wickerwork.

Subdivision

The province is divided into two municipalities

Municipalities of Bolivia

Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...

 which are further subdivided into four cantons

Cantons of Bolivia

||On the level below municipalities, Bolivia is divided into cantons ....

.

Section	Municipality	Inhabitants	Seat	Inhabitants
1st	Arani Arani Municipality Arani Municipality is the first municipal section of the Arani Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Arani. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 11,542 inhabitants....	11,542	Arani Arani (Bolivia) Arani is the capital of Arani Province and Arani Municipality located in Cochabamba Department in the center of Bolivia at an altitude of 9,400 ft . At the time of census 2001 it had 3,512 inhabitants.....	3,512
2nd	Vacas Vacas Municipality Vacas Municipality is the second municipal section of the Arani Province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its capital is Vacas known as the "Land of the potato"...	12,511	Vacas Vacas, Cochabamba Vacas is a Bolivian village in the southeast of the Cochabamba Department. It is the capital of the Vacas Municipality, the second municipal section of the Arani Province...	650

Arani Municipality consists of three cantons, Arani, Pocoata and Collpaciaco. Vacas Municipality is not further subdivided, so Vacas Canton and Vacas Municipality are identical.

Population

The people in the Arani Province are mainly indigenous

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 citizens of Quechua descent.

Ethnic group	Arani Municipality	Vacas Municipality
Quechua	87.2	94.4
Aymara	0.4	0.2
Guaraní, Chiquitos Chiquitos Chiquitos means "little ones" in Spanish. The Spanish Conquistadores chose this name for the people living in the rain savannas of what is now the eastern parts of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia, when they found the small doors of the Indian huts in the region.Today, this area is called Gran... , Moxos Moxos people The Moxos, also known as the Mojos, are an indigenous people living around the head-waters of the Madeira River in northern Bolivia, particularly on both banks of the Mamore River. They submitted to Inca domination, but in 1564 gallantly repulsed the Spaniards. A century later, however, the Jesuits...	0.2	0.0
Not indigenous Indigenous peoples of the Americas The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...	12.1	5.4
Other indigenous groups	0.1	0.1

Languages

The languages spoken in the Arani Province are mainly Quechua

Quechua languages

Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...

 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

. The following table shows the number of those belonging to the recognized group of speakers.

Language	Arani Municipality	Vacas Municipality
Quechua Quechua languages Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...	10,347	11,662
Aymara Aymara language 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 three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia...	76	39
Guaraní Guaraní language Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní , is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí–Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay , where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and half of...	5	2
Another native	5	2
Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	7,082	4,236
Foreign	49	11
Only native	3,902	7,540
Native and Spanish	6,467	4,131
Only Spanish	615	106

Tourism

Festivals and Fairs:

• August 14 - 15: Saint Isidore the Laborer
  Isidore the Laborer
  Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer, , was a Spanish day laborer known for his goodness toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers and of Madrid and of La Ceiba, Honduras....
  
   in Qullpayaku, 2 days
• August 24 - 25: Virgen la Bella in Arani, 2 days
• September 20: Farmers' fair in Tacopaya
  Tacopaya
  Tacopaya is a village in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. It is the seat of the Tacopaya Municipality, the second municipal section of the Arque Province.-External links:*...
  
  , 1 day
• 3rd week in November: Bread fair in Arani, 1 day
• December 4: Saint Barbara
  Saint Barbara
  Saint Barbara, , Feast Day December 4, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr....
  
   in Vacas

Other tourist attractions include the church of Saint Bartholomew (San Bartolomé) in Arani, built in 1610, which is dedicated to the Virgen la Bella, and the lakes in Vacas Municipality: Parququcha

Parququcha

Parququcha is a Bolivian lake located in Vacas Municipality, Arani Province, Cochabamba Department.- External links :*...

, Asiruqucha

Asiruqucha (Cochabamba)

Asiruqucha is a Bolivian lake located in Vacas Municipality, Arani Province, Cochabamba Department.- External links :*...

, Junt'utuyu, Pilawit'u

Pilawit'u

Pilawit'u is a Bolivian lake located in Vacas Municipality, Arani Province, Cochabamba Department. The last four thousand years of environmental and vegetation change has been recently reconstructed from the lake sediments of Pilawit'u...

, Qullpaqucha

Qullpaqucha

Qullpaqucha is a Bolivian lake located in Vacas Municipality, Arani Province, Cochabamba Department.- External links :*...

and Yanatama.

External links

• Map of Arani Province