Quime Municipality
Quime Municipality is the second municipal section of the Inquisivi Province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia, located south-east of the city of La Paz. Its seat is Quime.
Quime | |
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Municipality | |
 Quime | |
| Nickname(s): Un lugar de descanso | |
| Motto(s): luchar hasta el final | |
  Quime Location within Bolivia | |
| Coordinates: 16°45′S 67°20′W | |
| Country |  |
| Department | La Paz Department |
| Province | Inquisivi Province |
| Seat | Quime |
| Government | |
| • Type | Democratic |
| • Mayor | Paulino Villanueva Oyardo |
| • Sub Mayor | Panfilo Marca |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 7,338 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (-4) |
The coordinates are 16° 59' 0" South, 67° 13' 0".
The climate is perfect since the town is between the mountains and the tropic, it has a large vegetation mostly eucalyptus, you can feel the nice aroma of the eucalyptus when you near Quime, it has 3 beautiful rivers, the water is clear like the air, the name of the rives are: Quime River, Chanvillalla River, Chichipata River.
Geography
The Kimsa Cruz mountain range traverses the municipality. Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:[1][2][3]
Division
The municipality consists of the following cantons:[4]
- Choquetanga Canton - 2,537 inhabitants (2001)
- Figueroa Canton - 149 inhabitants
- Waña Quta Canton - 69 inhabitants
- Quime Canton - 4,583 inhabitants
See also
References
- Evelio Echevarría, Cordillera Quimsa Cruz, Bolivia, see sketch map p. 153
- Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Estancia Choquetanga Chico 6143-IV
- IGM map 1:50,000 6142-IV 'Yaco'
- National Institute of Statistic in Bolivia Archived September 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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