Pocona Municipality is the third municipal section

Municipalities of Bolivia

Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...

 of Carrasco Province

Carrasco Province (Bolivia)

Carrasco is a province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its capital is Totora.- Subdivision :Carrasco Province is divided into six municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons.Entre Ríos Municipality was created in 2004....

 in Cochabamba Department

Cochabamba Department

Cochabamba is one of the nine component departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products due to Cochabamba's geographical position. It has an area of 55,631 km². Its population, in the 2007 census, was 1,750,000...

, Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. Its seat is Pocona

Pocona

Pocona is a location in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. It is the seat of the Pocona Municipality, the third municipal section of the Carrasco Province. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 244 .-External links:*...

. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 13,488 inhabitants.

Cantons

The municipality is divided into five cantons

Cantons of Bolivia

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Canton	Inhabitants (2001)	Seat	Inhabitants (2001)
Pocona Canton	4.251	Pocona Pocona Pocona is a location in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. It is the seat of the Pocona Municipality, the third municipal section of the Carrasco Province. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 244 .-External links:*...  / Puquna	244
Chimboata Canton Chimboata Canton Chimboata Canton is one of the cantons of the Pocona Municipality, the third municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its seat is Chimboata .-External links:*...	963	Chimboata / Chimpuwata	69
Chillicchi Canton Chillicchi Canton Chillicchi Canton is one of the cantons of the Pocona Municipality, the third municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its seat is the village of Chillicchi which had 130 inhabitants in 2001.-External links:...	405	Chillicchi	130
Huayapacha Canton Huayapacha Canton Huayapacha Canton is one of the cantons of the Pocona Municipality, the third municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its seat is Huayapacha .-External links:*...	5,461	Huayapacha / Wayapacha	206
Conda Canton Conda Canton Conda Canton is one of the cantons of the Pocona Municipality, the third municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its seat is Conda .-External links:*...	2,408	Conda	311

The People

Some data:

Pocona Municipality
National ranking (out of 314 municipalities)	264
Human Development Index Human Development Index The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...  (2001)	0.475
Life Expectancy Index	0.526
Education Index Education Index This article contains information based on the pre-2010 Human Development Reports. The HDI and its education component have changed in 2010.The United Nations publishes a Human Development Index every year, which consists of the Education index, GDP Index and Life Expectancy Index...	0.576
Life expectancy Life expectancy Life expectancy is the expected number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is denoted by ex, which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x, according to a particular mortality experience...  (years)	56.6
Literacy Literacy Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print...  of adults (% of 15 years old and more)	72.0
Average years of schooling Education in Bolivia Education in Bolivia, as in many other areas of Bolivian life, has a divide between Bolivia's rural and urban areas. Rural illiteracy levels remain high, even as the rest ofthe country becomes increasingly literate...	3.3
Population census Census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...  2001	13,488
Percentage of rural population	100.0%

Languages

The languages spoken in the Pocona Municipality are mainly Quechua

Quechua languages

Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...

 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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Language	Inhabitants
Quechua Quechua languages Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...	12,482
Aymara Aymara language Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia...	39
Guaraní Guaraní language Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní , is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí–Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay , where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and half of...	3
Another native	6
Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	4,954
Foreign	22
Only native	7,706
Native and Spanish	4,790
Only Spanish	166

Economy

The principal economic activities are the cultivation of stone fruit and potatoes and tourism.

Places of interest

The monumental Inca site of Inkallaqta is situated in the Pocona Municipality.

External links

• Map of Esteban Arce Province (not showing Entre Ríos Municipality
• www.enlared.org.bo / Statistical data: Education (Spanish)