Pelechuco Municipality is the second municipal section of the

Franz Tamayo Province Franz Tamayo is a province in the Bolivian department of La Paz. It lies in the western part of the nation, and includes the Ulla Ulla National Reserve - which today is part of the Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area - in the high An ...

in the La Paz Department,

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. 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

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Municipalities, to the south by the Curva and Charazani Municipalities and to the west by

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Geography

The

Apolobamba Apolobamba ''(Cordillera (de) Apolobamba)'' is a mountain range in the South American Andes. Geographical Location It is located in the eastern borderland of Peru and Bolivia. On the Bolivian side it is situated in the La Paz Department, Bolivia ...

mountain range traverses the municipality. The highest mountain of the municipality is

Chawpi Urqu Chaupi Orco (possibly from in the Quechua spelling ''Chawpi Urqu''; ''chawpi'' middle, center, ''urqu'' mountain) or Viscachani (possibly from the Aymara 'wisk'acha'' viscacha)'' is a mountain in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It ...

(Wisk'achani) at . Other mountains are listed below:

Division

Pelechuco Municipality is subdivided into the following four

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: * 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:www.gobernacionlapaz.gob.bo
Tourist guide by the government of the department * Katantica, one of the most important peaks of the

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 Madidi () is a national park in the upper Amazon river basin in Bolivia. Established in 1995, it has an area of 18,958km². Along with the nearby protected (though not necessarily contiguous) areas Manuripi-Heath, Apolobamba, and the Manu Biosp ...

* the

Ulla Ulla National Reserve The Ulla Ulla National Reserve - which today is part of Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area - was created in 1972 with an extension of 240,000 ha, a biosphere reserve located in the Franz Tamayo Province, in the Department of La Paz in ...

in Ulla Ulla Canton which today is part of the

Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area The Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area (''Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Apolobamba'') is a protected area in the La Paz Department, Bolivia, situated in the Bautista Saavedra, Franz Tamayo and Larecaja provinces. See also * Ap ...

* the pre-Hispanic Guanan ruins in Pelechuco Canton * Cololo Lake in Antaquilla de Copacabana Canton * Suches Lake on the border to Peru

References

www.ine.gov.bo / census 2001: Pelechuco Municipality
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External links

Pelechuco Municipality: population data and map
{{La Paz Department Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia)