Villa Rivero


Villa Rivero, Rivero, or Muela is a village in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. It is the seat of the Villa Rivero Municipality, the second municipal section of the Punata Province. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 671. The size of the population of Muela is not unusual, considering Bolivia's population density of 8.9/km2 in the 2001 census. As is the case with most of Bolivia's territory, this village is situated at high altitude, with nearby glacial lakes approximately 5 km from Piscumayu.