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Inquisivi Municipality

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Country
  
Bolivia

Province
  
Inquisivi Province

Elevation
  
9,200 ft (2,800 m)

Department
  
La Paz Department

Seat
  
Inquisivi

Time zone
  
-4 (UTC-4)

Inquisivi Municipality

Inquisivi Municipality is the first municipal section of the Inquisivi Province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Inquisivi.

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The municipality is situated on the eastern slopes of the Kimsa Cruz mountain range between the Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east.

It is bordered to the north by the Sud Yungas Province, to the east by the Cochabamba Department, to the south by the Colquiri Municipality and to the west by Cajuata, Licomapampa, Quime and Ichoca municipalities.

Division

Inquisivi Municipality is divided into eight cantons:

  • Arcopongo - 4,046 inhabitants (2001)
  • Capiñata - 1,699 inhabitants
  • Cavari - 2,024 inhabitants
  • Eduardo Abaroa - 949 inhabitants
  • Escola - 1,904 inhabitants
  • Inquisivi - 3,495 inhabitants
  • Pocusco - 960 inhabitants
  • Siguas - 1,066 inhabitants
  • Notable people

    The politician and officer Eliodoro Camacho (1831–1899) was born in Inquisivi.

    References

    Inquisivi Municipality Wikipedia