Municipio Cajuata

Municipio Cajuata
Basic data
Population (state) ; - population density	10,288 inhabitants (2012 census) ; 15 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	02-1003
Telephone code	(+591)
surface	697 km²
height	2000 m
Coordinates	16 ° 35 ′ S , 67 ° 15 ′ W Coordinates: 16 ° 35 ′ S , 67 ° 15 ′ W
	Municipio Cajuata
	Municipio Cajuata
politics
Department	La Paz
province	Inquisivi Province
Central place	Cajuata
climate
	; Climate diagram Cajuata

The municipality of Cajuata is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Cajuata is one of six municipalities in the Inquisivi province and is located in the northern part of the province. It borders the Municipio Quime to the west, the Municipio Licoma Pampa to the south, the Municipio Inquisivi to the southeast and east , and the Province of Sud Yungas to the north .

The municipality has fifty localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Cajuata with 1,189 inhabitants in the southeastern part of the district, the second largest town is Circuata with 1,141 inhabitants. ( 2012 census )

geography

The municipality of Cajuata is located at an average altitude of 2000 m on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz , between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which temperatures are often subject to greater fluctuations during the day than during the year.

The mean average temperature in the valleys of the region is 19 ° C (see climate diagram Cajuata), with the monthly values only slightly between a good 16 ° C in June / July and around 21 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is more than 900 mm and falls mainly in the wet season from November to March, the arid period with values below 30 mm extends from May to August.

population

The population of the Municipio Cajuata has increased by a fifth in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	8 681	census
2001	7 757	census
2012	10 288	census

The municipality had a population density of 14.8 inhabitants / km² in the last census of 2012 , the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 61.5 years, the infant mortality rate was from 8.4 percent (1992) to 6.7 percent in Year 2001 dropped.

The literacy rate among those over the age of 15 is 79.5 percent, namely 88.7 percent for men and 68.4 percent for women (2001) .

93.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 34.4 percent speak Aymara , and 16.1 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

82.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 83.1 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

82.3 percent of the total of 1,925 households have a radio, 12.6 percent a television, 18.3 percent a bicycle, 15.3 percent a motorcycle, 2.9 percent a car, 5.5 percent a refrigerator and 0.1 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		ADEP COCA	MAS -IPSP	U.N.	ASP
4,293		3.712	2,564		1,293	775	307	189
		100%	69.1%		50.4%	30.2%	12.0%	7.4%

structure

The municipality was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following four cantons ( cantones ):

02-1003-01 Canton Cajuata - 23 localities - 3,682 inhabitants / 2,894 inhabitants (2001)
02-1003-02 Canton Suri - 8 villages - 1,326 inhabitants / 1,088 inhabitants
02-1003-03 Canton Circuata - 13 localities - 4,619 inhabitants / 3,210 inhabitants
02-1003-04 Canton of Huaritolo - 6 towns - 661 inhabitants / 565 inhabitants