Arque Province

Arque Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Cochabamba
Seat	Arque
surface	1077 km²
Residents	20,630 (2012)
density	19 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-C
Bolivian women taking a literacy course

Coordinates: 17 ° 50 ′  S , 66 ° 25 ′  W

Climate diagram Arque

Chuños , freeze-dried potatoes

Arque is one of the 16 provinces in the department of Cochabamba in the eastern Cordillera of the South American state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The province of Arque is located at an altitude of 3,000 to 4,500 meters in the Bolivian Andes, about 250 kilometers west of Cochabamba , the capital of the department of the same name. The landscape is very rugged. The provincial capital Arque is located on the northern bank of the Río Arque , a tributary of the Río Grande .

The province of Arque is enclosed by the province of Tapacarí in the northwest, the province of Quillacollo in the northeast, the province of Capinota in the east, the department Potosí in the southeast, the province Bolívar in the south and the department Oruro in the west.

The province extends roughly between 17 ° 40 'and 17 ° 58' south latitude and 66 ° 40 'and 67 ° 12' west longitude, its extent from west to east is up to 50 kilometers, from north to south 30 kilometers.

geography

The province of Arque is located in one of the northern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is semi-arid and a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.

Arque has an average annual precipitation of 600 mm and an annual average temperature of 11 ° C in the valleys (see Arque climate diagram). The dry season lasts from May to September and has lower temperatures, night frosts are particularly common in the higher elevations. The rainy season lasts from December to April and is warmer than the annual average; the precipitation often falls as devastating hailstorms that can destroy both crops and crops.

population

The population of the province of Arque has increased slightly over the past two decades.

year	Residents	source
1992	18,249	census
2001	23,464	census
2012	20,630	census

INE 1992	province	%-Proportion of
population	18,249	100%
00-14 years	7,804	42.8%
15–64 years	9.314	51.0%
65 and more years	1,131	6.2%

language

Of the predominantly indigenous population , 99.2 percent speak Quechua , and almost 75 percent of the people only understand Quechua. A quarter of the population grows up bilingual and also communicates in Spanish . Aymara is ruled by less than one percent of people. Up until now, most schools have taught in Spanish.

Living and living situation

Arque is considered one of the poorest or even poorest provinces within Cochabamba. The predominantly rural population mostly lives in the simplest accommodation made of adobe bricks with roofs made of adobe and straw and a floor made of pounded earth. Often the houses only consist of one room in which people cook on an open fire.

INE 1992	province	%-Proportion of
Literacy (from 6 years)
writable and readable	5,967	40.6%
Illiterate	8,607	58.6%
without specification	111	0.8%
School education (from 6 years)
no	6,967	47.4%
Basic education	6,077	41.4%
Basic level	601	4.1%
middle education	95	0.6%
technical education	5	0.1%
normal education	80	0.5%
university	6th	0.1%
other	11	0.1%
without specification	843	5.7%
Water supply
inside the accommodation	33	0.7%
outside the accommodation	190	4.2%
without water connection	4,304	95.1
Power connection
with power connection	51	1.1%
without power connection	4,476	98.9%
Sanitary equipment
Sewerage	1	0.0%
Cámara Séptica	5	0.1%
other	107	2.4%
without specification	4,414	97.5%
religion
Catholic	15,270	83.9%
evangelical	2,359	12.9%
other	47	0.3%
no	153	0.8%
without specification	374	2.1%

economy

Most families farm for their own needs. Corn, wheat, barley and potatoes are grown on the barren, sloping fields. The latter are also preserved freeze-dried in the ground using traditional methods and consumed as chuños .

Transport network

In June 2006 the longest shroud bridge in the country was completed. The 162 m long bridge crosses the Río Tacopaya . It is located at km 101 on the road to Oruro . The purpose of this bridge is to be navigable throughout the year, while the path was usually cut off before when the river carried a lot of water in the rainy season.

structure

The province of Arque is divided into two Municipios , also called Sections ( Spanish : sección ) or secciones municipales :

• 03-0601 Municipio Arque (1st section) with 10,524 inhabitants ( 2001: 11,496 inhabitants ) in the west of the province;
• 03-0602 Municipio Tacopaya (2nd section) with 10,106 inhabitants ( 2001: 11,968 inhabitants ) in the east of the province.

The two municipalities, each with a mayor and a municipal council, are in turn divided into two cantons each, each under the care of a corregidor (official). The province is headed by a sub-prefect.

Localities in the province of Arque

• Municipio Arque
  • Cocamarca 330 pop - Arque 308 pop - Kalapaqueri 182 pop

• Municipio Tacopaya
  • Tacopaya 535 pop - Totora Pampa 246 pop

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
3. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF 7.77 MB) (Spanish)
• Municipio Arque - detailed map and population data (PDF; 420 kB) (Spanish)
• Municipio Tacopaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 373 kB) (Spanish)