Arque Municipality

17°49′S 66°26′W / 17.817°S 66.433°W / -17.817; -66.433Country

BoliviaDepartmentCochabamba DepartmentProvinceArque ProvinceSeatArqueGovernment

• MayorHilarion Valencia Anabe (2007) • PresidentGaby Gutierrez Hurtade (2007)Elevation

11,500 ft (3,500 m)Population

(2001)

• Total11,806Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

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.

Geography

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

Apachita
Awila Chukuña
Chuymani
Ch'uñawi
Juch'uy Sayari
Pichaqani
Puka Puka
Pukara
Qala Pampa
Sayari
Siwinqani
Yanakuna

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]

Language	Inhabitants
Quechua	10,793
Aymara	107
Guaraní	3
Another native	2
Spanish	2,185
Foreign	13
Only native	8,778
Native and Spanish	2,052
Only Spanish	134

References

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