Colquechaca (in hispanicized spelling) or Qullqichaka (

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''qullqi'' silver, money, ''chaka'' bridge,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa
Bolivian Quechua dictionary
(Quechua - Spanish, Spanish Quechua) "silver bridge") is the first municipal section of the

Chayanta Province Chayanta is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is Colquechaca. Location Chayanta province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 18° 23' and 19° 6' South and ...

in the

Potosí Department Potosí (; Southern Quechua, Quechua: ''P'utuqsi''; Aymara language, Aymara: ''Putusi'') is a Departments of Bolivia, department in southwestern Bolivia. Its area is 118,218 km2 and its population is 856,419 (2024 census). The capital is the ...

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

. Its seat is Colquechaca.

Subdivision

The municipality consists of the following cantons: * Ayoma * Colquechaca * Macha * Rosario * Surumi

The people

The people are predominantly

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

citizens of

descent.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)

References

External links

Colquechaca Municipality: population data and map
Municipalities of Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub