Municipio Catacora

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Municipio Catacora
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		2881 inhabitants (2012 census)
5 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-1902
Telephone code (+591)
surface 610 km²
height 4500  m
Coordinates 17 ° 14 ′  S , 69 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 14 ′  S , 69 ° 29 ′  W
Municipio Catacora (Bolivia)
Municipio Catacora
Municipio Catacora
politics

Department La Paz
province José Manuel Pando Province
Central place Catacora
climate
Climate diagram Charaña
Climate diagram Charaña

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

Location in the vicinity

The municipality Catacora has a size of 610 km² and is one of two municipalities in the province of José Manuel Pando and is located in the southwestern part of the province. It borders the Republic of Peru to the west and the municipality of Santiago de Machaca to the southeast, east and northeast .

The municipality has 43 localities ( localidades ), the administrative seat of the municipality is Catacora with 548 inhabitants in the northern part of the municipality. ( 2012 census )

geography

The Municipio Catacora is located at an average altitude of 4500  m southwest 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 municipality of Catacora has a semi-arid climate, as the rainfall for more than six months is insufficient for the vegetation to grow.

The mean annual temperature of Catacora is around 8 ° C (see climate diagram Charaña), the annual precipitation is only 300 mm. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 5 ° C from June to July and 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly precipitation is between less than 10 mm in the months May to October and about 50 mm from December to March.

population

The population of the Municipio Catacora has increased by two thirds in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 1 735 census
2001 2,358 census
2012 2,881 census

The municipality had a population density of 4.7 inhabitants / km² in the last census of 2012 , the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 65.1 years, the infant mortality rate was 9.6 percent (1992) to 5.2 percent in Year 2001 dropped.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 91.5 percent, namely 95.3 percent for men and 87.7 percent for women (2001) .

83.6 percent of the population speak Spanish , 91.4 percent speak Aymara , and 0.2 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

96.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 57.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

75.5 percent of the total of 481 households have a radio, 0.4 percent a television, 53.6 percent a bicycle, 4.4 percent a motorcycle, 1.7 percent a car, 0.2 percent a refrigerator and 0.4 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 MSM
476   433 376   247 129
  100% 86.8%   65.7% 34.3%

structure

In the last census of 2012, the municipality was divided into the following four cantons :

Localities in the Municipio Catacora

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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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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