Municipio Batallas
| Municipio Batallas | |||
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| Population (state) - population density |
17,284 inhabitants (2012 census) 23 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-1203 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 742 km² | ||
| height | 3900 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 15 ′ S , 68 ° 25 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| Central place | Batallas | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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The Municipio Batallas is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Municipio Batallas is one of four Municipios of the Province of Los Andes and is located in the northern part of the Province. It is bordered to the west by Lake Titicaca and the municipality of Puerto Pérez , to the south by the municipality of Pucarani , to the north by the province of Larecaja , and to the northwest by the province of Omasuyos .
The municipality has 52 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Batallas with 2,257 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the western part of the district.
geography
The municipality of Batallas is located at an average altitude of 3900 m southeast of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate, in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is 8.8 ° C (see climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is almost 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 20 mm from May to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
population
The population of the Municipio Batallas has more or less stagnated in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 17 147 | census |
| 2001 | 18 693 | census |
| 2012 | 17 284 | census |
In the last census of 2012, the municipality had a population density of 23.3 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.4 years, the infant mortality rate was from 6.0 percent (1992) to 7.1 percent in 2001 increased slightly.
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 74.1 percent, 88.0 percent for men and 61.9 percent for women (2001) .
66.8 percent of the population speak Spanish , 93.9 percent speak Aymara , and 0.2 percent speak Quechua . (2001)
60.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 66.0 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
60.3 percent of the total of 5,118 households have a radio, 15.9 percent a television, 35.5 percent a bicycle, 0.9 percent a motorcycle, 2.9 percent a car, 0.6 percent a refrigerator and 1.3 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 | MSM | MAS -IPSP | MPS | FPV | ||
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| 8,858 | 8,160 | 5,731 | 2,084 | 2,038 | 973 | 636 | ||
| 100% | 70.2% | 36.4% | 35.6% | 17.0% | 11.1% |
structure
The municipality was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following nine cantons ( cantones ):
- 02-1203-01 Batallas canton - 18 towns - 7,046 inhabitants
- 02-1203-02 Canton Peñas - 4 localities - 1,241 inhabitants
- 02-1203-03 Canton Villa San Juan de Chachacomani - 7 villages - 1,245 inhabitants
- 02-1203-04 Canton Kerani - 7 localities - 1,934 inhabitants
- 02-1203-05 Canton Karhuiza - 1 village - 1,034 inhabitants
- 02-1203-06 Canton Villa Remedios de Calasaya - 4 villages - 1,289 inhabitants
- 02-1203-07 Canton Villa Asuncion Tuquia - 8 villages - 2,330 inhabitants
- 02-1203-08 Canton of Huancané - 2 localities - 1,094 inhabitants
- 02-1203-13 Canton Llasaraya - 1 village - 71 inhabitants
The canton Llasaraya (also Huayni Potosí ) was part of the Municipio Pucarani until the 1990s, but is now part of the Municipio Batallas.
Localities in the Municipio Batallas
- Batallas Canton
- Batallas pop 2257 - Chirapaca pop 851 - Cullucachi pop 656 - Pariri pop 543 - Catacora pop 537 - Cutusuma pop 448
- Canton of Peñas
- Peñas 393 pop.
- Canton Villa San Juan de Chachacomani
- Kerani Canton
- Alto Peñas 712 pop - Kerani 209 pop
- Karhuiza Canton
- Karhuiza pop. 1034
- Canton Villa Remedios de Calasaya
- Calasaya 521 pop.
- Canton Villa Asuncion Tuquia
- Suriquiña pop 568 - Tuquia pop 516
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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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
- Relief map of the Batallas region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250: 000 (PDF; 11.3 MB)
- Municipio Batallas - General Maps No. 21203
- Municipio Batallas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 497 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )