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Vacas, Cochabamba

Field	Value
official_name	Vacas
native_name	Wak'as
image_skyline	Vista de la población de Vacas.JPG
image_size	300px
image_caption	Panoramic view of Vacas as seen from Calvario de la Virgen Santa Bárbara
mapsize	250x200px
pushpin_map	Bolivia
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_type1	Department
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_type3	Municipality
subdivision_name	Bolivia Bolivia
subdivision_name1	Cochabamba Department
subdivision_name2	Arani Province
subdivision_name3	Vacas Municipality
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Teófilo Vásquez Santos
established_date	1986
population_as_of	2001
population_total	650
timezone	BOT
utc_offset	-4
coordinates
elevation_m	3475
area_code	00 591 4

Vacas (Quechua name: Wak'as, deriving from Wak'a) 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. Vacas is located about 85 km far from Cochabamba and about 30 km far from Arani.

The people living in Vacas and surrounding areas are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechuan descent. During the Inca period Vacas served as a tampu along the Inca road system that led to Inkallaqta and Pocona. Later on, during the colonial period, it was founded under the name of "Santa Bárbara de Bacas".

Vacas is situated in a rural environment in the altitudes of the Cono Sur (Southern Cone) of Cochabamba. The climate is suitable for the cultivation of potatoes, wheat, barley, broad bean and oat. Vacas is known as the "Land of the potato" (Quechua: Papaq llaqtan, ). The fields are prepared with the help of yokes of oxen. The cultivation of the soil is supplemented by animal husbandry of cows, sheep, pigs and hens.

Education

Pupils of the ''Escuela Unidad Experimental'' in Vacas during the parade of August 6

As to education all types of schools are available in or next to Vacas.

Preschool education: Guardería Sagrado Corazón de Jesús.
Primary school: Escuela Unidad Experimental, founded in 1862
Secondary school: Colegio Profesor Toribio Claure
Higher education: Ismael Montes Teacher Training College (Escuela Superior de Formación de Maestros "Ismael Montes" or ESFM "Ismael Montes") (in Challwa Mayu)

Festivities

May 4: Santa Vera Cruz Tatala
May or June: Corpus Christi
June 29: Saint Peter
July 16: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patron saint of Bolivia
October 15: Anniversary of Vacas Municipality
December 4: Saint Barbara, Anniversary of Vacas

Fairs

April: Fish, potato and crafts fair

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