Canton of Choreti
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| Residents (state) | 3646 pop (2001) | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| height | 900 m | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 59 ′ S , 63 ° 26 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Cordillera Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Camiri | ||
| Central place | Choreti | ||
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 Climate diagram Camiri |
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The canton of Choreti is a municipality in the Santa Cruz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton ( Bolivian : Cantón) Choreti is one of two cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Camiri in the province of Cordillera . It borders in the north on the municipality Gutiérrez , in the northwest and west on the municipality Lagunillas , in the south on the canton Camiri , and in the southeast and east on the municipality Charagua , all belonging to the province of Cordillera.
The canton is between 19 ° 52 'and 20 ° 08' south latitude and 63 ° 17 'and 63 ° 36' west longitude. Its maximum extent in east-west direction is up to about 30 kilometers, in north-south direction up to about 25 kilometers.
The canton Choreti comprises 15 localities, the central place of the canton is Choreti with 999 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southwestern part of the district in the immediate vicinity of the city of Camiri . The mean height of the canton is 900 m , in the foothills of the Serranía Choreti and Serranía Borevigua on the western and eastern edge of the canton, heights of over 1,500 m are reached.
geography
The canton Choreti lies in the eastern foothills of Bolivia between the Cordillera Oriental and the Bolivian lowlands. The region's climate is semi-humid and has a clear time-of-day climate in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the temperature fluctuations over the course of the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 23 ° C and fluctuates over the course of the year between 17 ° C in June and 26 ° C in November and December (see Camiri climate diagram). The annual precipitation is almost 900 mm and falls mainly in the wet season from November to April, where the average monthly values are up to 175 mm. The six months from May to October are arid , and there is almost no rainfall, especially from June to September.
population
The number of inhabitants in the canton has changed little over the past two decades:
- 1992 : 3,152 inhabitants ( 1992 census )
- 2001 : 3,646 inhabitants (census)
- 2010 : More recent data for the canton are not yet available, the update for the municipality of Camiri assumes a population decline of five percent for the period from 2001 to 2010
The population density of the Municipio Camiri at the last census of 2001 was 31 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns was 68.4 years. The literacy rate among the over 15-year-olds in the municipality had risen from 89.6 to 90.9 percent. ( 2001 )
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Guaraní population, in the municipality of Camiri 13.0% of the population speak the Guaraní language .
structure
The Cantón Choreti is divided into the following twelve sub-cantons ( Bolivian : vicecantones):
- Vicecantón Choreti - 1 village - 1,074 inhabitants ( 2001 census )
- Vicecantón Comunidad Cañon de Segura - 1 village - 184 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad Corundaity - 1 village - 5 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad El Rodeo - 1 village - 281 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad Guapoi - 1 village - 86 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad Guazuigua - 1 village - 341 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad Itanambikua - 1 village - 740 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad Piedritas - 1 village - 113 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad Pipi Parirenda - 4 towns - 352 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad Puente Viejo - 1 village - 154 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad Yobatitindy - 1 village - 178 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Urundaity - 1 village - 138 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE 1992)
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE 2001)
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones (PDF; 1.59 MB)
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Camiri - Politics, Population and Economy ( Spanish )
- Municipio Camiri - General Maps No. 70706
- Municipio Camiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 776 kB) ( Spanish )
- Cordillera Sur province - road map (PDF; 677 kB)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )