Pocona Municipality


Pocona Municipality is the third municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Pocona. 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 cantons.
CantonInhabitants SeatInhabitants
Pocona Canton4.251Pocona / Puquna244
Chimboata Canton963Chimboata / Chimpuwata69
Chillicchi Canton405Chillicchi130
Huayapacha Canton5,461Huayapacha / Wayapacha206
Conda Canton2,408Conda311

The People

Some data:
Pocona Municipality
National ranking 264
Human Development Index 0.475
Life Expectancy Index0.526
Education Index0.576
Life expectancy 56.6
Literacy of adults 72.0
Average years of schooling3.3
Population census 200113,488
Percentage of rural population100.0%

Languages

The languages spoken in the Pocona Municipality are mainly Quechua and Spanish.
LanguageInhabitants
Quechua12,482
Aymara39
Guaraní3
Another native6
Spanish4,954
Foreign22
Only native7,706
Native and Spanish4,790
Only Spanish166

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.