La Paz Department (Bolivia)

La Paz
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Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Capital	La Paz
surface	133,985 km²
Residents	2,706,351 (2012 census)
density	20 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L

Coordinates: 15 ° 0 ′  S , 68 ° 20 ′  W

The Bolivian department of La Paz is located in the west of the country on the border with Peru and covers 133,985 km² and has 2,706,351 inhabitants (2012). The most important cities are the city of La Paz (capital of the department and seat of government of Bolivia) and the neighboring El Alto .

geography

The western and southwestern parts of the department belong to the high plateau of the Altiplano . The Bolivian part of Lake Titicaca and the up to 6600 m high Cordillera Real belong to it . To the northeast of the Cordillera are the Yungas , two elongated valleys on the eastern slope of the Andes , which form the transition to the Amazon lowlands. They are only about 1000 m above sea level and are the most important supplier for supplying La Paz and El Altos with fruit and vegetables . Almost the entire northern half belongs to the tropical lowlands and is only very sparsely populated.

The important ruins of Tiahuanaco are located southwest of the department capital .

population

The population of the department has more than tripled in the past 65 years:

year	Residents	source
1950	854 079	census
1976	1,465,078	census
1992	1 900 786	census
2001	2,350,466	census
2012	2 706 351	census

Of the 2,350,466 inhabitants of the La Paz department at the time of the 2001 census, 1,552,146 lived in urban areas and 798,320 in rural areas. Most of the urban population lives in the two cities of La Paz and El Alto . 77.46% of the population over 15 years of age (70.19% in urban and 92.47% in rural areas) counted themselves to the members of Indian peoples. The majority of them belong to the Aymara , whose main settlement area is the department of La Paz together with the neighboring department of Oruro and the neighboring areas of Peru . According to the 2001 census, 88.47% of residents over 6 years of age speak Spanish (96.69% in urban areas and 72.25% in rural areas).

Provinces

The provinces of the La Paz department

The La Paz Department is divided into 20 provinces:

No.	province	2001 residents	Residents 2012	note
1	Abel Iturralde Province	0011,828	0018,073
2	Provincial flavor	0086,480	0097.364
3	Bautista Saavedra Province	0011,475	0016.308
4th	Caranavi Province	0051,153	0059,365
5	Franz Tamayo Province	0018,386	0026,997
6th	Gualberto Villarroel Province	0015,975	0017,782
7th	Eliodoro Camacho Province	0057,745	0053,747
8th	Ingavi Province	0095.906	0134,535
9	Inquisivi Province	0059,495	0066,346
10	José Manuel Pando Province	0006.137	0007,381
11	Larecaja Province	0068.026	0086,473
12	Loayza Province	0043,731	0047,295
13	Los Andes Province	0069,636	0077,579
14th	Manco Kapac Province	0022,892	0027,154
15th	Muñecas Province	0025.163	0025.193
16	Nor Yungas Province	0023,681	0036,983
17th	Omasuyos Province	0085,702	0084,484
18th	Pacajes Province	0049.183	0055,180
19th	Murillo Province	1,484,328	1,663,099	includes u. a. the cities of La Paz and El Alto
20th	South Yungas Province	0063,544	0105.013

Biggest places

city	Population 2001 (census)	Population 2012 (census)
La Paz	792.611	757.184
El Alto	695.243	842,378
Viacha	29,108	62,516
Achocalla	10,369	18,442
Caranavi	12,318	13,569
Patacamaya	10,007	11,197
Achacachi	7,560	8,857

politics

Overall result in the La Paz department in the regional elections on April 4, 2010:

electoral legitimate		electoral participation	valid votes		MAS-IPSP	MSM	U.N.	MPS	ASP	MNR
1,504,037		1,339,676	1,069,234		534.563	247,796	159,499	67,863	30,361	29,152
		89.1%	79.8%		50.0%	23.2%	14.9%	6.3%	2.8%	2.7%

tourism

In the department of La Paz are the ruins of Tiahuanaco , one of the world's most famous landmarks. Also, the Lake Titicaca and the mountainous region of Chacaltaya be visited by thousands of tourists.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 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.  
3. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

Web links

Commons : Departamento La Paz (Bolivia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the department on the website of the Bolivian Embassy in Berlin
• Website of the Prefecture of the Department of La Paz (Spanish)
• Flag of La Paz