San Pedro de Quemes Municipality is the second municipal section

Municipalities of Bolivia

Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...

 of the Nor Lípez Province

Nor Lípez Province

Nor Lípez is a province in the Bolivian department of Potosí. Its seat is Colcha "K", also called Villa Martín. The majority of the province's area was titled as the Nor Lípez Native Community Land on 19 April 2011...

 in the Potosí Department

Potosí Department

Potosí Department is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km² with 709,013 inhabitants . The capital is the city of Potosí....

 in Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. Its seat is San Pedro de Quemes.

Subdivision

The municipality consists of the following cantons:

• Cana - 44 inhabitants (2001)
• Chiguana - 10 inhabitants
• Pajancha - 52 inhabitants
• Pelcoya
  Pelcoya Canton
  Pelcoya is one of the cantons of the San Pedro de Quemes Municipality, the second municipal section of the Nor Lípez Province in the Potosí Department of Bolivia. During the census of 2001 it had 135 inhabitants. Its seat is Pelcoya with a population of 79 in 2001.-External links:*...
  
   - 135 inhabitants
• San Pedro de Quemes
  San Pedro de Quemes Canton
  San Pedro de Quemes is one of the cantons of the San Pedro de Quemes Municipality, the second municipal section of the Nor Lípez Province in the Potosí Department of Bolivia. During the census of 2001 it had 574 inhabitants. Its seat is San Pedro de Quemes with a population of 490 in 2001.-External...
  
  - 574 inhabitants

Geography

Some of the highest mountains in the municipality are:

Name	Location
Araral	Pelcoya Canton /
Iruphutunku Irruputuncu Irruputuncu is a stratovolcano which lies on the border of Chile and Bolivia. It is a relatively small peak, lying within the collapse scarp of a debris avalanche from earlier in the Holocene, which was built up by eruptions to fill much of that feature. There are two craters lying at the summit,...	Cana Canton
Julina	San Pedro de Quemes Canton
Cañapa	Pelcoya Canton
Minchincha	Cana Canton /
Pabellón	Pelcoya Canton
Paruma Paruma Paruma is a stratovolcano that lies on the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is part of a ridge that contains several stratovolcanos. Paruma lies at the eastern end of the ridge, with Olca to its west. The older volcano Cerro Paruma lies to east of Paruma. Paruma has clearly been active during the...	Cana Canton /
Q'aluta Wintu Luma (Khaluta Vinto Loma)	San Pedro de Quemes Canton
Cerro Gordo, Cana	Cana Canton
Cerro Gordo, Quemes	San Pedro de Quemes Canton
Sarapuru (Sarapuro)	San Pedro de Quemes Municipality
Uquilla	San Pedro de Quemes Canton
Ollagüe Ollagüe Ollagüe is a massive andesite stratovolcano in the Andes on the border between Bolivia and Chile. It is located southeast of the village that shares its name....	Pelcoya Canton
Olca Olca Olca is a stratovolcano on the border of Chile and Bolivia. It lies in the middle of a 15 km long ridge composed of several stratovolcanos. Cerro Minchincha lies to the west and Paruma to the east. It is also close to the pre-Holocene Cerro Paruma. It is andesitic and dacitic in composition,...	Cana Canton /

Many of the mountains and volcanoes form a natural border to Chile.

The people

The people are mainly not indigenous

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 and 45,0 % are citizens of Quechua descent.

Ethnic group	%
Quechua Quechuas Quechuas is the collective term for several indigenous ethnic groups in South America who speak a Quechua language , belonging to several ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.The Quechuas of Ecuador call themselves as well as their...	45.0
Aymara	6.3
Guaraní, Chiquitos Chiquitos Chiquitos means "little ones" in Spanish. The Spanish Conquistadores chose this name for the people living in the rain savannas of what is now the eastern parts of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia, when they found the small doors of the Indian huts in the region.Today, this area is called Gran... , Moxos Moxos people The Moxos, also known as the Mojos, are an indigenous people living around the head-waters of the Madeira River in northern Bolivia, particularly on both banks of the Mamore River. They submitted to Inca domination, but in 1564 gallantly repulsed the Spaniards. A century later, however, the Jesuits...	0.2
Not indigenous Indigenous peoples of the Americas The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...	48.3
Other indigenous groups	0.2

External links

• San Pedro de Quemes Municipality: population data and map