Municipio Mineros

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Municipio Mineros
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density
23,251 inhabitants (2012 census)
58 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 07-1003
Telephone code (+591)
surface 400 km²
height 250  m
Coordinates 17 ° 5 ′  S , 63 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 5 ′  S , 63 ° 16 ′  W
Municipio Mineros (Bolivia)
Municipio Mineros
Municipio Mineros
politics

Department Santa Cruz
province Obispo Santistevan Province
Central place Mineros
climate
Climate diagram San Pedro
Climate diagram San Pedro

The Municipio Mineros is a district in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The Municipio Mineros is one of five Municipios in the Obispo Santistevan Province . It borders in the north with the municipality Fernández Alonso , in the northwest with the municipality San Pedro , in the west with the province Sara , in the south with the municipality General Saavedra , and in the east with the province Ñuflo de Chávez . 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 small town of Mineros with 18,340 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southern part of the municipality.

geography

The municipality of Mineros is located in the tropical humid climate in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region has only been opened up in the last few decades and 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 climate diagram San Pedro), the monthly averages fluctuate between 21 ° C in June / July and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is almost 1500 mm, the monthly precipitation is abundant and lies between 50 mm in July and 250 mm in January.

population

The population of the Municipio Mineros has increased by a good half in the past two decades:

  • 1992 : 15,893 inhabitants ( census )
  • 2001 : 19,846 inhabitants (census)
  • 2010 : 23,251 inhabitants (census)

The population density of the municipality at the last census of 2012 was about 58 inhabitants / km².

The infant mortality rate was 7.0 per cent ( 1992 declined slightly) to 6.6 percent in 2001, the literacy rate among the over six-year-olds of 82.6 percent ( in 1992 rose) to 89.7 percent.

97.6 percent of the population speak Spanish , 23.2 percent speak Quechua , 3.1 percent Guaraní , and 0.5 percent Aymara .

31.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 17.9 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )

69.9 percent of the 3,492 households have a radio, 58.2 percent a television, 61.0 percent a bicycle, 15.1 percent a motorcycle, 13.3 percent a car, 35.7 percent a refrigerator, and 7.8 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 FA TODOS ASIP MAS-IPSP MSM
9,991   8,531 7,470   2.165 2.124 1,388 1,152 641
  85.4% 87.6%   29.0% 28.4% 18.6% 15.4% 8.6%

structure

The municipality Mineros is not in cantons ( cantones ) divided. Due to the division of the original Municipios Mineros into the Municipios Mineros, Fernández Alonso and San Pedro , no reliable data is available for 2001 on the number of sub-cantons ( vicecantones ) and localities ( localidades ).

Individual evidence

  1. Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
  2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
  3. Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012
  4. Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

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