Municipio Calacoto

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Municipio Calacoto
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		9879 inhabitants (2012 census)
3 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-0303
Telephone code (+591)
surface 3,904 km²
height 3900  m
Coordinates 17 ° 25 ′  S , 68 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 25 ′  S , 68 ° 45 ′  W
Municipio Calacoto (Bolivia)
Municipio Calacoto
Municipio Calacoto
politics

Department La Paz
province Pacajes Province
Central place Calacoto
climate
Callapa climate diagram
Callapa climate diagram

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

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Calacoto is one of eight municipalities in the Pacajes province and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the Charaña Municipality , in the southeast on the Oruro Department , the east by the municipality Callapa , on the northeast by the municipality of Coro Coro , and the north by the municipality Caquiaviri .

The municipality comprises 268 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Calacoto with 337 inhabitants in the northeastern part of the district, the largest village is Ulloma with 512 inhabitants. ( 2012 census )

geography

The municipality of Calacoto is located at an average altitude of 3900  m south 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 mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.

The annual average temperature of the region is around 8 ° C (see Callapa climate diagram), the monthly values ​​fluctuate only slightly between 5 ° C in June and a good 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is a low 400 mm, the monthly values ​​are between under 10 mm from May to August and 100 mm in January.

population

The population of the Municipio Calacoto has increased by about a third in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 7 330 census
2001 8 818 census
2012 9 879 census

The municipality had a population density of 2.5 inhabitants / km² in the last census of 2012 , the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 58.9 years, and the infant mortality rate was from 8.9 percent ( 1992 ) to 7.8 percent dropped in 2001.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 85.5 percent, namely 95.4 percent for men and 75.4 percent for women (2001) .

71.5 percent of the population speak Spanish , 93.1 percent speak Aymara , and 0.1 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

97.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 60.9 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

58.5 percent of the total of 3,083 households have a radio, 0.8 percent a television, 47.0 percent a bicycle, 1.4 percent a motorcycle, 1.4 percent a car, 0.1 percent a refrigerator and 0.3 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   CUMI MAS -IPSP MSM AGED MPS
3,749   3,440 2,697   953 767 526 231 220
  100% 78.4%   35.3% 28.4% 19.5% 8.6% 8.2%

structure

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

Localities in the municipality of Calacoto

  • Canton of Ulloma

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

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