Municipio Concepción

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Municipio Concepción
Jesuit Reduction Church in Concepción
Jesuit Reduction Church in Concepción
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		18,800 population (2012 census)
1 population / km²
Post Code 07-1101
Telephone code (+591)
surface 29,840 km²
height 400  m
Coordinates 15 ° 27 ′  S , 62 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 15 ° 27 ′  S , 62 ° 1 ′  W
Municipio Concepción (Bolivia)
Municipio Concepción
Municipio Concepción
politics

Department Santa Cruz
province Province of Ñuflo de Chavez
Central place Concepción
climate
Climate diagram Concepción
Climate diagram Concepción

The Municipio Concepción is a district in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The Municipio Concepción is one of the six Municipios of the Province of Ñuflo de Chávez . It borders in the north on the Beni department , in the west on the province of Guarayos , in the west on the municipality San Javier , in the southwest on the municipality San Julián , in the south on the municipality Cuatro Cañadas , in the southeast on the municipality San Antonio de Lomerío , and in the east to the province of José Miguel de Velasco .

The municipality lies between about 13 ° 38 'and 17 ° 06' south latitude and 61 ° 28 'and 62 ° 35' west longitude, its extent in north-south direction is up to 390 kilometers and in east-west direction up to to 130 kilometers.

The central place of the district is the small town of Concepción with 5,586 inhabitants ( 2001 ) in the southern part of the municipality.

geography

The municipality of Concepción is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the Chiquitanía region , a landscape between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border that is still sparsely populated in large regions .

The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm tropics . The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly over the course of the year between 21 ° C in June / July and almost 27 ° C in October, with an almost constant between 25 and 26 ° C between September and March. The annual mean temperature is around 24 ° C.

The annual rainfall averages around 1200 mm over the long term. Three quarters of the precipitation fall in the wet season from September to March, while in the arid months of June, July and August fall less than 40 mm per month in the dry season .

population

The population of the municipality has almost doubled in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 9 710 census
2001 14 522 census
2012 18 800 census

The population density of the municipality in the 2012 census was 0.6 inhabitants / km², with the northern half of the municipality in particular being almost unpopulated.

The infant mortality rate was 6.3 percent ( 1992 declined slightly) to 5.6 percent in 2001, the literacy rate among the over six-year-olds of 69.6 percent ( in 1992 rose) to 81.4 percent.

99.0 percent of the population speak Spanish , 2.8 percent speak Quechua , 0.8 percent Aymara , 0.4 percent Guaraní , and 7.7 percent speak other indigenous languages .

65.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 21.5 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )

61.9 percent of 2,485 households have a radio, 24.8 percent a television, 57.7 percent a bicycle, 9.4 percent a motorcycle, 7.9 percent a car, 13.7 percent a refrigerator, and 3.9 percent Percent a phone. ( 2001 )

politics

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

electoral
legitimate 		electoral
participation 		valid votes MAS-IPSP VERDES FA FPV TODOS
6,934   6,192 5,212   2,000 1,416 986 516 294
  89.3% 84.2%   38.4% 27.2% 18.9% 9.9% 5.6%

structure

The municipality of Concepción is in the following two cantons ( cantones split):

  • Canton Concepción (in the northern part of the municipality) - 38 sub-cantons - 43 villages - 13,376 inhabitants ( 2001 )
  • Canton San Pedro (in the southern part of the municipality) - 4 sub-cantons - 8 towns - 1,146 inhabitants

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
  4. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

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