Municipio Colquencha

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Municipio Colquencha
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		9785 inhabitants (2012 census)
29 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-1306
Telephone code (+591)
surface 340 km²
height 3900  m
Coordinates 16 ° 56 ′  S , 68 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 56 ′  S , 68 ° 15 ′  W
Municipio Colquencha (Bolivia)
Municipio Colquencha
Municipio Colquencha
politics

Department La Paz
province Provincial flavor
Central place Colquencha
climate
Climate diagram Colquencha
Climate diagram Colquencha

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

Location in the vicinity

The Municipio Colquencha is one of seven Municipios of the Province of Aroma and is located in the northwestern part of the Province. It borders the province of Pacajes to the west and south , the Municipio Ayo Ayo to the southeast , the Municipio Calamarca to the east , and the Municipio Collana to the north .

The municipality has 24 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Colquencha with 3,085 inhabitants in the northern part of the municipality. Other larger towns in the municipality are Marquirivi with 1,630 inhabitants and Santiago de Llallagua with 674 inhabitants. ( 2012 census )

geography

The Municipio Colquencha is located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3900  m , 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 temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the municipality is 10 ° C (see climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and just under 12 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is around 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 125 mm in January.

population

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

year Residents source
1992 5 850 census
2001 8 020 census
2012 9 785 census

The municipality had a population density of 28.8 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 57.3 years, and infant mortality had risen from 6.9 percent (1992) to 8.5 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate among those over the age of 19 is 90.3 percent, namely 95.3 percent for men and 85.4 percent for women (2001) .

77.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 92.5 percent speak Aymara , and 0.1 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

83.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 76.0 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

67.4 percent of households have a radio, 13.7 percent a television, 43.2 percent a bicycle, 1.4 percent a motorcycle, 8.9 percent a car, 0.4 percent a refrigerator, 2.2 percent one Phone. (2001)

politics

Results of the elections for the municipal council ( concejales del municipio ) in the regional elections on April 4, 2010:

Eligible voters   be right valid   MAS -IPSP MSM MPS
4,007   3,802 2,441   1,270 993 178
  100% 64.2%   52.0% 40.7% 7.3%

structure

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

Localities in the municipality of Colquencha

  • Canton of Nueva Esperanza de Machacamarca

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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