Municipio Calamarca

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Municipio Calamarca
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Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		12,104 inhabitants (2012 census)
25 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-1304
Telephone code (+591)
surface 492 km²
height 3800  m
Coordinates 16 ° 54 ′  S , 68 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 54 ′  S , 68 ° 7 ′  W
Municipio Calamarca (Bolivia)
Municipio Calamarca
Municipio Calamarca
politics

Department La Paz
province Provincial flavor
Central place Calamarca
climate
Climate diagram Patacamaya
Climate diagram Patacamaya

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

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Calamarca is one of seven municipalities in the province of Aroma and is located in the northern part of the province. It borders the province of Ingavi to the northwest , the Municipio Collana and the Municipio Colquencha to the west, the Municipio Ayo Ayo to the south, the Province of Loayza to the east, and the province of Murillo to the northeast .

The municipality has 35 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Calamarca with 1,417 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality. The second largest place in the municipality is San Antonio de Senkata with 1,339 inhabitants.

geography

The municipality of Calamarca is located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3800  m , between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.

The mean average temperature of the municipality is 9 ° C (see climate diagram Patacamaya), the annual precipitation is about 600 mm. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. the monthly precipitation is between less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

population

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

year Residents source
1992 9 716 census
2001 12 112 census
2012 12 104 census

The municipality had a population density of 24.6 inhabitants / km² at the 2012 census . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.6 years, and infant mortality fell from 8.4 percent (1992) to 7.1 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 89.7 percent, namely 95.5 percent for men and 83.8 percent for women (2001) .

79.6 percent of the population speak Spanish , 95.7 percent speak Aymara , and 0.1 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

77.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 71.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

64.0 percent of the households have a radio, 8.3 percent a television, 29.9 percent a bicycle, 0.8 percent a motorcycle, 7.3 percent a car, 0.5 percent a refrigerator, 1.6 percent one 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 ASP NOS MPS
5,911   5,305 3,169   1,195 917 661 396
  100% 59.7%   37.7% 28.9% 20.9% 12.5%

structure

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

Localities in the municipality of Calamarca

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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