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Tarata province

Province in Tacna, Peru From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tarata province
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Tarata is one of four provinces in the Tacna Region in southern Peru. Its capital is Tarata city.

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Geography

The province of Tarata is bounded to the northwest by Candarave province, to the northeast by El Collao province of the Puno Region, to the east by Bolivia, and to the south and west by Tacna Province.

The Barroso mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest mountains in the province are listed below:[1]

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Political division

The province is divided into eight districts (Spanish: distritos, singular: distrito), each of which is headed by a mayor (alcalde):

Ethnic groups

The province is inhabited by indigenous citizens of Aymara descent. Spanish, however, is the language which the majority of the population (82.31%) learnt to speak in childhood, 17.12% of the residents started speaking using the Aymara language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

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