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. Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001 (Spanish) It has the lowest HDI of Bolivia with 0.311.
Geography Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:
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.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo / Observatorio Bolivia Democrático (Spanish)
Language InhabitantsQuechua10,793Aymara107Guaraní3Another native 2Spanish 2,185Foreign13Only native8,778Native and Spanish2,052Only Spanish134
See also Arque River
References Bolivia 1:100,000 Tarata 3635, Map prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center, Bethesda, MD