Caranavi Canton
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| Residents (state) | 14,374 pop (2001) | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| height | 1000 m | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Caranavi Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Caranavi | ||
| Central place | Caranavi | ||
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 Caranavi climate diagram |
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The canton of Caranavi is an administrative district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Caranavi is one of twenty-two cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Caranavi in the province of Caranavi and is located in the central part of the district. It borders in the northwest on the canton of Alto Illimani , in the west on the canton Santa Fe , in the southwest on the canton Uyunense , in the south on the canton Santa Ana de Caranavi , in the southeast on the canton Taypiplaya , in the east on the canton Rosario Entre Ríos , and in the northeast to the canton of San Pablo .
The canton extends between 15 ° 46 'and 15 ° 55' south latitude and 67 ° 30 'and 67 ° 36' west latitude, it measures up to ten kilometers from north to south and up to eight kilometers from west to east. The canton consists of 21 localities ( localidades ), the central place is Caranavi with 13,569 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the central western part of the canton.
geography
The canton of Caranavi is nestled on the Río Coroico between the eastern Voranden chains in the transition area between the Andean Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands. The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature is 25.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly over the course of the year between 23 ° C in June / July and 27 ° C in November / December (see Caranavi climate chart). The annual precipitation reaches a height of almost 1500 mm, and apart from a short dry season in June / July the climate is humid all year round with monthly precipitation of over 200 mm from December to February.
population
The population of the canton is in the decade between the last two censuses risen by more than a third:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 10 484 | census |
| 2001 | 14 374 | census |
| 2012 | . | no data yet |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Caranavi 57.8% of the population speak the Aymara language .
structure
The canton of Caranavi is divided into the following fifteen sub-cantons ( vicecantones ):
- Caranavi - 1 village - 12,083 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Colonia Ampliacion Villa Flor - 1 village - 106 inhabitants
- Colonia Bautista Saavedra - 3 localities - 718 inhabitants
- Colonia Bolinda - 5 localities - 231 inhabitants
- Colonia Copacabana - 1 village - 126 inhabitants
- Colonia Corpus Cristy - 1 village - 203 inhabitants
- Colonia Huari Nuevo - 1 village - 24 inhabitants
- Colonia Mallasa - 1 village - 71 inhabitants
- Colonia Manco Kapac - 1 village - 158 inhabitants
- Colonia Pachamama - 1 village - 61 inhabitants
- Colonia San Antonio - 1 village - 177 inhabitants
- Colonia Villa Asuncion - 1 village - 115 inhabitants
- Colonia Villa Flor - 1 village - 52 inhabitants
- Colonia Villa Rosario - 1 village - 201 inhabitants
- Colonia Virgen De Fatima - 1 village - 48 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
Web links
- Municipio Caranavi - Politics, Population and Economy ( Spanish )
- Municipio Caranavi - General Maps No. 22001
- Municipio Caranavi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.17 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )