Pelechuco Municipality
Municipality in La Paz Department, Bolivia
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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.
Pelechuco Municipality | |
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Municipality | |
Jach'a Waracha as seen from the west, Pelechuco Municipality | |
  Pelechuco Municipality Location of the Pelechuco Municipality within Bolivia | |
| Coordinates: 14°45′0″S 69°5′0″W | |
| Country |  Bolivia |
| Department | La Paz Department |
| Province | Franz Tamayo Province |
| Seat | Pelechuco |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Daniel Cama Mamani (2007) |
| • President | Florencio Condori Mamani (2007) |
| Area | |
• Total | 968 sq mi (2,507 km2) |
| Elevation | 12,800 ft (3,900 m) |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 5,115 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (BOT) |
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 6,044 m (19,829 ft). Other mountains are listed below:[1][2]
Division
Places of interest
Some of the tourist attractions of the municipalities are:[4]
- Katantica, one of the most important peaks of the Apolobamba mountain range, about 5,592 m high, in Pelechuco Canton
- the colonial town of Pelechuco
- the village of Queara near Pelechuco which is also situated in the highest area of Madidi National Park
- the Ulla Ulla National Reserve in Ulla Ulla Canton which today is part of the Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area
- the pre-Hispanic Guanan ruins in Pelechuco Canton
- Cololo Lake in Antaquilla de Copacabana Canton
- Suches Lake on the border to Peru