Municipio Cabezas

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Municipio Cabezas
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		26,434 inhabitants (2012 census)
5 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 07-0703
Telephone code (+591)
surface 5,486 km²
height 650  m
Coordinates 19 ° 55 ′  S , 63 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 55 ′  S , 63 ° 25 ′  W
Municipio Cabezas (Bolivia)
Municipio Cabezas
Municipio Cabezas
politics

Department Santa Cruz
province Cordillera Province
Central place Cabezas
climate
Climate diagram Gutiérrez
Climate diagram Gutiérrez

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

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Cabezas is one of seven municipalities in the province of Cordillera and covers an area in the northwestern part of the province. It borders the province of Florida in the northwest , the province of Vallegrande in the west, the municipality Gutiérrez in the south, the municipality Charagua in the east , and the province of Andrés Ibáñez in the north .

The municipality extends between about 17 ° 50 'and 19 ° 12' south latitude and 62 ° 41 'and 63 ° 49' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 100 kilometers and from north to south up to 120 kilometers .

The municipality comprises 126 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the town of Cabezas with 2,319 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) on the south-eastern edge of the district, the most populous town is the town of Abapó with 2,386 inhabitants.

geography

The municipality of Cabezas is located on the western edge of the Bolivian lowlands in front of the foothills of the southeastern Cordillera Central . The climate is subtropical and semi-humid , the temperatures fluctuate only to a limited extent during the day and during the year.

The annual average temperature is almost 23 ° C, with monthly average temperatures between 18 ° C in June and July and over 25 ° C from November to January (see Gutiérrez climate diagram). The annual precipitation is almost 750 mm, the dry season from May to October contrasts with a pronounced humidity period from November to April, in which the average maximum values ​​reach 130 to 140 mm per month.

population

The population of the Municipio Cabezas has increased by about half in the past two decades:

  • 1992 : 16,808 inhabitants ( census )
  • 2001 : 22,296 inhabitants (census)
  • 2012 : 26,434 inhabitants (census)

The population density at the last census of 2012 was 4.8 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among those over 15 years of age had increased from 87.4 percent (1992) to 92.1 percent. The life expectancy of newborns was 63.7 years and infant mortality had fallen from 6.8 percent (1992) to 6.4 percent in 2001.

69.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 9.0 percent speak Quechua , 6.8 percent Guaraní , 0.3 percent Aymara , and 28.8 percent speak foreign languages. (2001)

93.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 26.9 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

39.3 percent of the 3,917 households have a radio, 16.0 percent a television, 30.8 percent a bicycle, 1.9 percent a motorcycle, 11.4 percent a car, 41.2 percent a refrigerator, and 0.5 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 VERDES SOL MACC
6,671   5,627 4,907   2,555 1,784 331 237
  100% 87.2%   52.1% 36.4% 6.7% 4.8%

structure

The municipality of Cabezas was subdivided in the 2001 census in the following six cantons ( cantones ):

  • Cantón Cabezas - 2 vicecantones - 4 parishes - 1,539 inhabitants
  • Cantón Abapó - 4 vicecantones - 5 municipalities - 2,500 inhabitants
  • Cantón Florida - 3 vicecantones - 6 parishes - 761 inhabitants
  • Cantón Piray - 1 vicecantones - 4 parishes - 422 inhabitants
  • Cantón Curiche - 25 vicecantones - 104 parishes - 16,944 inhabitants
  • Cantón El Filo - 2 vicecantones - 3 parishes - 130 inhabitants

Localities in the municipality

Individual evidence

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

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