San Benito Municipality or Villa José Quintín Mendoza Municipality is the third
municipal section of the
Punata Province
Punata is a province almost in the middle of the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, located about 45 km south of the city of Cochabamba. Its capital is Punata. The province is limited to the north by the Chapare Province, to the north-east by ...
in the
Cochabamba Department,
Bolivia
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. Its seat is
San Benito. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 12,720 inhabitants.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística
(Spanish)
Cantons
The municipality is divided into three cantons. They are (their seats in parentheses):
* Huaricaya Canton or San Lorenzo Canton - (San Lorenzo)
* San Benito Canton or Villa José Quintín Mendoza Canton - ( San Benito)
* Sunchu Pampa Canton - (Sunchu Pampa)
References
External links
Map of Punata Province
Municipalities of the Cochabamba Department
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