Municipio Azurduy
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| Full name | Villa Azurduy | ||
| Population (state) - population density |
10,594 inhabitants (2012 census) 6 inhabitants / km² |
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| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 1,713 km² | ||
| height | 2400 m | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 11 ′ S , 64 ° 27 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Azurduy Province | ||
| Central place | Azurduy | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Azurduy |
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The Municipio Azurduy is a district in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Municipio Azurduy is one of two Municipios of the Azurduy Province and is located in the southern part of the province. It borders on the municipality of Tarvita to the northwest, the province of Nor Cinti to the west and south, and the province of Hernando Siles to the east and north .
The municipality extends between 19 ° 49 'and 20 ° 28' south latitude and 64 ° 17 'and 64 ° 36' west longitude, it measures up to 70 kilometers from north to south and up to 30 kilometers from east to west.
The municipality has 132 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the village Azurduy with 1,229 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the northern part of the district.
geography
The Municipio Azurduy is located between the Altiplano in the west and the lowlands in the east in one of the north-south side valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Central .
The climate of the region is a distinct daytime climate , in which the temperature differences between day and night fluctuate more clearly than the average values between summer and winter. The annual average temperature is 14 ° C (see Azurduy climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C in December / January. Annual precipitation is just under 550 mm, with a dry season and monthly values below 10 mm from May to August, and maximum values of 100 to 110 mm from December to February.
population
The number of inhabitants of the municipality has changed only insignificantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 10 818 | census |
| 2001 | 11 349 | census |
| 2012 | 10 594 | census |
The literacy rate among those over the age of 6 is 61.4 percent ( 2001 ), the life expectancy of newborns is 57.0 years, and infant mortality rose slightly from 9.0 percent (1992) to 9.3 percent in 2001.
60.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 55.8 percent speak Quechua , and 0.1 percent speak Aymara . (2001)
90.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 89.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
54.8 percent of 2,329 households have a radio, 5.4 percent a television, 5.2 percent a bicycle, 0.1 percent a motorcycle, 0.3 percent a car, 2.1 percent a refrigerator, and 0.0 percent Percent a phone. (2001)
politics
Results of the elections to the municipal council ( concejales ) in the regional elections on April 4, 2010:
| Eligible voters | be right | valid | MAS -IPSP | PAIS | MSM | ||
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| 3,697 | 3,184 | 2,568 | 1,690 | 733 | 145 | ||
| 100% | 80.7% | 65.8% | 28.5% | 5.6% |
structure
The municipality was subdivided in the census 2012 in the following three cantons ( cantones ):
- 01-0201-01 Canton Azurduy - 48 villages - 4,457 inhabitants ( 2001: 4,431 inhabitants )
- 01-0201-02 Canton Antonio Lopez - 42 localities - 5,001 inhabitants ( 2001: 5,625 inhabitants )
- 01-0201-03 Canton of Las Casas - 11 towns - 1,136 inhabitants ( 2001: 1,293 inhabitants )
Localities in the Municipio Azurduy
- Canton of Azurduy
- Azurduy 1229 Pop.
- Antonio Lopez Canton
- Tablani Pop. 636 - San Antonio Pop . 187.
- Las Casas Canton
- Torrecillas 214 pop.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Municipio Azurduy In: Turismo Chuquisaca ( Spanish )
- Municipio Azurduy - General Maps No. 10201
- Municipio Azurduy - detailed map and population data (PDF; 113 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )