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Pelechuco Municipality

Pelechuco Municipality is the second municipal section of the Franz Tamayo Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. IN 2001 it had apopulation of 5,115. Its seat is Pelechuco.

The municipality is bordered to the north by the Apolo Municipality, to the east by the Apolo and Curva Municipalities, to the south by the Curva and Charazani Municipalities and to the west by Peru. The municipality is home to the absolute majority of the so-called Puquina indigenous people (1,845 persons out of the 1,944 Puquinas censused in Bolivia in 2024).

Geography

The Apolobamba mountain range traverses the municipality. The highest mountain of the municipality is Chawpi Urqu (Wisk'achani) at . Other mountains are listed below:

Division

Pelechuco Municipality is subdivided into the following four cantons:

  • Antaquilla de Copacabana - 964 inhabitants (2001)
  • Pelechuco - 2,756 inhabitants
  • Suches - 227 inhabitants
  • Ulla Ulla - 1,168 inhabitants

Places of interest

Some of the tourist attractions of the municipalities are:

See also

References

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