Santa Fe Canton
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| Residents (state) | 1053 pop (2001) | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| height | 1000 m | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 48 ′ S , 67 ° 38 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Caranavi Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Caranavi | ||
| Central place | Santa Fe | ||
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 Caranavi climate diagram |
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The canton of Santa Fe is an administrative district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Santa Fe is one of twenty-two cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Caranavi in the province of Caranavi and is located in the central western part of the district. It borders in the northwest on the canton of Alcoche , in the west on the province of Murillo , in the south on the canton Uyunense , in the east on the canton Caranavi , and in the north on the canton Alto Illimani .
The canton extends between 15 ° 45 'and 15 ° 52' southern latitude and 67 ° 35 'and 67 ° 40' western latitude, it measures up to eleven kilometers from north to south and up to seven kilometers from west to east. The canton consists of eleven localities ( localidades ), the central place is Santa Fe with 344 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the center of the canton.
geography
The canton of Santa Fe 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 decreased slightly:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1 106 | census |
| 2001 | 1 053 | 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 Santa Fe is divided into the following eleven sub-cantons ( vicecantones ), each of which consists of only one village:
- Colonia 6 De Mayo - 5 residents
- Colonia Aguas Turbias - 52 inhabitants
- Colonia General Perez - 97 inhabitants
- Colonia Loayza - 102 inhabitants
- Colonia Milluni - 23 inhabitants
- Colonia Payasismo - 34 inhabitants
- Colonia Porvenir "A" - 170 inhabitants
- Colonia Porvenir "B" - 162 inhabitants
- Colonia San Jorge Primero - 29 inhabitants
- Colonia Titiriwara - 44 inhabitants
- Santa Fe - 335 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística
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 )