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Chimoré Municipality

municipality of Bolivia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1521093 ↗
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Chimoré Municipality is the fourth municipal section of the Carrasco Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Chimoré.

This municipality was created in 1984 by Law number 633 of September 13, 1984, encompassing the towns of San Isidro, Senda III, La Victoria, Santa Rosa, Todos Santos, Puerto Alegre, Entre Rios Tacuaral, Puerto Aurora, Senda F, Senda D, Senda B y Cesarzama.

It is bordered by the rivers Ichilo, Chimoré and Chapare.

Subdivision

The municipality consists of only one canton, Chimoré Canton. It is identical to the municipality.

The people

The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechuan descent. There are also groups of Yuracaré along Chapare River like in the communities of Ibare, Puerto Cochabamba and Nueva Esperanza.

Languages

The languages spoken in the municipality are mainly Spanish and Quechua.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chimoré Municipality” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.