Canton of Totora
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| Basic data
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| Residents (state) | 1656 pop (2001) | ||
| height | 4100 m | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 46 ′ S , 68 ° 7 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | San Pedro de Totora Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio of San Pedro de Totora | ||
| Central place | Totora (Oruro) | ||
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 Climate diagram Curahuara de Carangas |
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The canton of Totora is a municipality in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Cantón Totora is one of seven cantons in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Pedro de Totora in the province of San Pedro de Totora . It borders on the La Paz Department in the north, the Calazaya canton in the northwest , the Chojña Cota canton in the southwest, the Huacanapi canton in the south and southeast , and the Nor Carangas province in the east .
The canton stretches between about 17 ° 38 'and 17 ° 55' south latitude and 68 ° 00 'and 68 ° 15' west longitude, it measures up to 30 kilometers from north to south and up to 25 kilometers from west to east. In the center of the canton is the central place of the canton, Totora with 270 inhabitants ( 2012 census ). The mean altitude of the canton is 4100 m .
geography
The canton of Totora is located in the Bolivian highlands between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region has a typical daytime climate in which the mean daytime temperatures fluctuate more strongly than the mean seasonal temperature fluctuations.
The mean average temperature of the region is 7 ° C (see climate diagram Curahuara de Carangas), the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is about 330 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months April to August and 90 mm in January.
population
The population of the canton has risen by around a third in the decade between the last two published censuses . Detailed data from the current census from 2012 are not yet available:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1 317 | census |
| 2001 | 1 656 | census |
| 2012 | . | no data yet |
The population density of the municipality of San Pedro de Totora at the last census in 2001 was 3.5 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns was 57.1 years.
The literacy rate among those over the age of 15 was 82.9 percent ( 2001 ). The most important idiom of the province is Aymara , which is spoken by 97% of the population.
99% of the population have no access to electricity, 94% live without sanitary facilities (1992).
83.5% of the working population work in agriculture, 4% in industry, 12.5% in the service sector (2001).
64% of the population are Catholic, 25% are Protestant (1992).
structure
The canton of Totora is divided into the following twelve sub-cantons ( vicecantones ):
- Vicecantón Caquingoriri - 1 municipality - 90 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Vicecantón Rosasani - 14 parishes - 194 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Ayllu Collpa Collana - 1 municipality - 101 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Ayllu Lerco - 3 parishes - 231 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Centro Lupe - 2 parishes - 104 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Challuma - 1 municipality - 124 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Chuquichuru - 1 municipality - 139 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Puerto Escoma - 1 municipality - 79 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Chivirapi - 1 municipality - 95 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Pananoza - 1 municipality - 144 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Ungalliri - 9 parishes - 143 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Totora - 1 municipality - 212 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
Web links
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio San Pedro de Totora - General Maps No. 41301
- Municipio San Pedro de Totora - detailed map and population data (PDF; 367 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )