Arque_Municipality

Arque Municipality

Arque Municipality

Municipality in Cochabamba Department, Bolivia

For other uses, see Arque (disambiguation).

Arque Municipality is the first municipal section of the Arque Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Arque. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 11,806 inhabitants.[1] It has the lowest HDI of Bolivia with 0.311.

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Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:[2][3]

Cantons

The municipality is divided into two cantons. They are (their seats in parentheses):

  • Arque Canton - (Arque)
  • Colcha Canton - (Colcha)

Languages

The languages spoken in the Arque Municipality are mainly Quechua and Spanish.[4]

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001 Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)
  2. [2]
    Bolivia 1:100,000 Tarata 3635, Map prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center, Bethesda, MD
  3. [3]
    "Arque". INE, Bolivia. Archived from the original on April 7, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  4. [4]
    obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo / Observatorio Bolivia Democrático Archived 2009-02-18 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)


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