Municipio Camargo (Bolivia)
Municipio Camargo | ||
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Camargo Cathedral |
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Basic data
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Population (state) - population density |
15,484 inhabitants (2012 census) 8 inhabitants / km² |
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Post Code | 01-0701 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
surface | 2,061 km² | |
height | 3300 m | |
Coordinates | 20 ° 36 ′ S , 65 ° 10 ′ W | |
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politics
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Department | Chuquisaca | |
province | Nor Cinti Province | |
Central place | Camargo | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Camargo |
The municipality of Camargo is a district in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality Camargo is one of three municipalities in the province of Nor Cinti and includes its southwestern area. It borders the Municipio San Lucas to the northwest , the Department of Potosí to the west, the Sud Cinti province to the south , and the Municipio Incahuasi to the east .
The municipality extends between about 20 ° 18 'and 20 ° 55' south latitude and 64 ° 51 'and 65 ° 23' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 50 kilometers, from north to south up to 70 kilometers .
The municipality comprises 117 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the village Camargo with 5,173 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the central part of the district.
geography
The municipality of Camargo is located on the southwestern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central , between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in Camargo is just under 14 ° C (see Camargo climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between just under 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 400 mm and has seven arid months from April to October with monthly values below 20 mm, significant monthly precipitation only falls from December to February with values of 80 to 90 mm each.
population
The population of the Municipio Camargo has increased only slightly in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 13 749 | census |
2001 | 14 009 | census |
2012 | 15 484 | census |
The population density at the last census of 2012 was 7.0 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among those over 6 years of age had increased from 77.0 percent (1992) to 78.8 percent (2001). The life expectancy of the newborns was 63.2 years, the infant mortality had fallen from 7.3 percent (1992) to 6.8 percent in 2001.
91.3 percent of the population speak Spanish , 38.6 percent speak Quechua , and 0.4 percent speak Aymara . (2001)
56.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 48.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
80.9 percent of 3,355 households have a radio, 36.7 percent a television, 46.0 percent a bicycle, 2.2 percent a motorcycle, 8.9 percent a car, 16.8 percent a refrigerator, and 9.1 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 | MAS -IPSP | CST | MSM | MNR | ||
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6,675 | 5,711 | 4,368 | 1,586 | 1,267 | 1,159 | 356 | ||
100% | 76.5% | 36.3% | 29.0% | 26.5% | 8.2% |
structure
The municipality of Camargo consists of the following three cantons ( cantones ):
- 01-0701-1 Canton Camargo - 41 Vicecantones - 62 municipalities - 10,341 inhabitants ( 2001: 9,270 inhabitants )
- 01-0701-2 Canton Tacaquira - 33 Vicecantones - 49 municipalities - 4,674 inhabitants ( 2001: 4,361 inhabitants )
- 01-0701-3 Canton Lintaca - 5 Vicecantones - 6 municipalities - 469 inhabitants ( 2001: 378 inhabitants )
Localities in the municipality of Camargo
- Camargo Canton
- Camargo 5173 pop - Palca Grande 64 pop
- Canton of Tacaquira
- Suquistaca 398 pop - Tacaquira 243 pop
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 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.
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Relief map of the Camargo region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.45 MB)
- Municipio Camargo - General Maps No. 10701
- Municipio Camargo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 452 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )