Municipio Copacabana
| Municipio Copacabana | |||
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 Panorama of Copacabana |
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| Basic data
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| Population (state) - population density |
14,931 inhabitants (2012 census) 83 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-1701 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 180 km² | ||
| height | 3850 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 9 ′ S , 69 ° 2 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Manco Kapac Province | ||
| Central place | Copacabana | ||
 View of Copacabana |
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| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Copacabana |
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The municipality of Copacabana is a district in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of Copacabana is one of three municipalities in the province of Manco Kapac and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered by Lake Titicaca to the northeast, north and west , the Municipio Tito Yupanqui to the southeast , and the Republic of Peru to the south .
The municipality has 36 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Copacabana with 5,579 inhabitants in the western part of the municipality.
geography
The municipality of Copacabana is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the Copacabana Peninsula in Lake Titicaca and also includes the two islands Isla del Sol (Sun Island) and Isla de la Luna (Moon Island). The mean height of the municipality is 3850 m . 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 annual average temperature of the municipality is 8 ° C (see climate diagram Copacabana), the monthly values fluctuate only insignificantly between a good 5 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is around 700 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of June and July and between 100 and 150 mm from December to March.
population
The population of the Municipio Copacabana has only increased slightly in the past two decades, with the increase being almost exclusively limited to the central location:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 13 573 | census |
| 2001 | 14 586 | census |
| 2012 | 14 931 | census |
The municipality had a population density of 83.0 inhabitants / km² in the last census of 2012 , the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 63.3 years, the infant mortality rate was 6.5 percent (1992) to 5.9 percent in Year 2001 dropped.
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 71.6 percent, 88.0 percent for men and 57.8 percent for women (2001) .
65.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 94.3 percent speak Aymara , and 0.4 percent speak Quechua . (2001)
40.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 62.5 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
75.0 percent of households own a radio, 29.7 percent a television, 22.0 percent a bicycle, 0.7 percent a motorcycle, 3.0 percent a car, 3.1 percent a refrigerator, 6.2 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 | MAYA-C | FRCUP | ASP | MSM | MPS | FPV | ||
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| 7,504 | 6,870 | 4,962 | 1,238 | 1,187 | 954 | 707 | 427 | 345 | 104 | ||
| 100% | 72.2% | 24.9% | 23.9% | 19.2% | 14.2% | 8.6% | 7.0% | 2.1% |
structure
The municipality was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following three cantons ( cantones ):
- 02-1701-01 Canton of Copacabana - 14 localities - 8,653 inhabitants ( 2001: 8,194 inhabitants )
- 02-1701-02 Canton Locka - 7 villages - 2,425 inhabitants ( 2001: 2,388 inhabitants )
- 02-1701-03 Canton Zampaya - 15 villages - 3,853 inhabitants ( 2001: 4,004 inhabitants )
Localities in the municipality of Copacabana
- Copacabana Canton
- Copacabana 5579 pop - Huacuyo 700 pop
- Canton of Zampaya
- Cha'lla pop. 871 - Yumani pop . 746 - Yampupata pop . 279 - Challapampa pop . 177 - Zampaya 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 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.
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Relief map of the Copacabana region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 608 kB)
- Municipio Copacabana - General Maps No. 21701
- Municipio Copacabana - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )