Municipio General Saavedra
| Municipio General Saavedra | |||
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| Population (state) - population density |
14,209 inhabitants (2012 census) 28 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 07-1002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 500 km² | ||
| height | 260 m | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 10 ′ S , 63 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Obispo Santistevan Province | ||
| Central place | General Saavedra | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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The Municipio General Saavedra (also: Agustín Saavedra or just Saavedra ) is a district in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality Saavedra is one of five municipalities in the province of Obispo Santistevan . It borders the Municipio Mineros to the north, the Province of Sara to the west, the Municipio Montero to the south, the Ignacio Warnes province to the east , and the Ñuflo de Chávez Province to the northeast . It extends from west to east up to 30 kilometers and from north to south up to 25 kilometers.
The central place of the municipality is the rural town of General Saavedra with 4,611 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the center of the municipality; other larger towns are Pico de Monte with 1,207 inhabitants and Puente Caimanes with 832 inhabitants.
geography
The municipality of Saavedra is located in the tropical humid climate in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 25 ° C (see Santa Cruz climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 20 ° C in July and 28 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 1300 mm, the monthly precipitation is productive and lies between 40 mm in August and 200 mm in January.
population
The population of the municipality Saavedra has increased by almost a third over the past two decades:
- 1992 : 11,639 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 16,592 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 14,209 inhabitants (census)
The population density of the municipality at the 2001 census was 28.4 inhabitants / km².
The infant mortality rate was 9.4 percent ( 1992 declined) to 8.2 percent in 2001, the literacy rate among the over six-year-olds of 73.3 percent ( in 1992 rose) to 85.7 percent.
93.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 25.3 percent speak Quechua , 12.0 percent Guaraní , and 0.4 percent Aymara .
51.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 21.6 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )
66.4 percent of the 2,747 households own a radio, 44.5 percent a television, 69.2 percent a bicycle, 5.2 percent a motorcycle, 10.7 percent a car, 18.6 percent a refrigerator, and 3.1 percent Percent a phone. ( 2001 )
politics
Results of the elections for the municipal council ( concejales del municipio ) in the regional elections on April 4, 2010:
| electoral legitimate |
electoral participation |
valid votes | MAS-IPSP | FA | MSM | ASIP | TODOS | ||
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| 5,747 | 4,931 | 4,009 | 1,224 | 1,142 | 996 | 440 | 207 | ||
| 85.8% | 81.3% | 30.5% | 28.5% | 24.8% | 11.0% | 5.2% |
structure
The municipality of Montero is not further divided into cantons (cantones), it is divided into 32 sub- cantons (vicecantones) with a total of 48 localities ( localidades ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Municipio Saavedra - General Maps No. 71002
- Municipio Saavedra - detailed map and population data (PDF; 602 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )