Pocona Municipality is the third municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the

Cochabamba Department Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa Jach'a Suyu, es, Departamento de Cochabamba , qu, Quchapampa Suyu), from Quechua ''qucha'' or ''qhucha'', meaning "lake", ''pampa'' meaning "plain", is one of the nine departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the ...

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. Its seat is

Pocona Pocona ( qu, Puquna) 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.

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

Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:

Cantons

The municipality is divided into five

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People

Some data:

Languages

The languages spoken in the Pocona Municipality are mainly

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and

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Economy

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

Places of interest

The monumental

Inca The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, (Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The admin ...

site of

Inkallaqta Inkallaqta (Quechua ''inka'' Inca, ''llaqta'' place (village, town, city, country, nation), "Inca place", Hispanicized spellings ''Incallacta, Incallajta, Incallakta, Inkallajta, Inkallakta'') is a monumental Inca site in central Bolivia. It is lo ...

is situated in the Pocona Municipality.

References

External links

www.enlared.org.bo / Statistical data: Education
(Spanish) Municipalities of the Cochabamba Department {{CochabambaBO-geo-stub