page_title: Vacas, Cochabamba
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Vacas, Cochabamba / Education
caption_attribution_description: Español: Alumnos de la Escuela Experimental de Vacas, durante el desfile cívico del 6 de agosto en homenaje a la Independencia del país, en la Plaza 4 de diciembre de Vacas.
context_page_description: 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. 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 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". 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.
context_section_description: 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)
caption: Pupils of the Escuela Unidad Experimental in Vacas during the parade of August 6
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