Municipio Cotoca
Municipio Cotoca | ||
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Location of the municipality of Cotoca in the province of Andrés Ibáñez |
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Basic data
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Population (state) - population density |
45,519 inhabitants (2012 census) 73 inhabitants / km² |
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Post Code | 07-0102 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
surface | 621 km² | |
height | 340 m | |
Coordinates | 17 ° 45 ′ S , 62 ° 50 ′ W | |
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politics
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Department | Santa Cruz | |
province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | |
Central place | Cotoca | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
The municipality of Cotoca is a district in the Santa Cruz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of Cotoca is one of five municipalities in the Andrés Ibáñez province . It is surrounded in the north, west and south by the municipality of Santa Cruz and borders on the province of Chiquitos in the east . The central place is Cotoca in the western part of the district with 19,482 inhabitants. ( 2012 census )
geography
The municipality of Cotoca is located east of the Cordillera Oriental in the Bolivian lowlands on the west bank of the Río Grande (Guapay) . The region's climate is tropical and humid almost all year round, with a short dry season from July to August with monthly values of only 30 to 40 mm and maximum values of 130 to 160 mm from December to February.
The temperature change in the course of the year is very balanced, the mean annual temperature is 24 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 20 ° C in June / July and a good 26 ° C from October to December (see climate diagram Santa Cruz).
population
The population of the Municipio Cotoca has more than doubled in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 21 252 | census |
2001 | 36 425 | census |
2012 | 45 519 | census |
The population density of the municipality at the last census of 2012 was 73.3 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 64.6 years. The literacy rate among those over 15 was 90.6 percent in 2001.
Due to the historical immigration of agricultural populations in the 20th century, the region has a not insignificant proportion of indigenous population: In the municipality of Cotoca, 17.8 percent of the inhabitants speak the Quechua language .
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 | VERDES | MAS-IPSP | TILUCHI | SOL | ASIP | FA | ||
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22,059 | 19,265 | 16,528 | 5,623 | 3,533 | 3.149 | 3,067 | 703 | 453 | ||
100% | 85.8% | 34.0% | 21.4% | 19.1% | 18.6% | 4.3% | 2.7% |
structure
In the 2012 census, the municipality was divided into the following two cantons :
- Canton Cotoca - 37 localities - 40,133 inhabitants
- Canton Puerto Pailas - 18 localities - 5,386 inhabitants
Localities in the municipality of Cotoca
- Canton of Cotoca
- Cotoca 19,482 pop - Campanero 2005 pop - Enconada 1925 pop - Don Lorenzo 1790 pop - El Bisito 1713 pop - Tarope 1574 pop - Tajibos 994 pop - Veintitrés de Enero - Villa Nueva 923 pop - El Espino 828 Pop . - Santa Rosa de Proboste 802 pop - San Andrés 765 pop - Abra Nueva - Campanero Sur 711 pop - Arroyito 647 pop - Los Tajibos 584 pop - Itapaqui 583 pop - Las Barreras 529 pop - Arroyuelo 511 Pop.
- Puerto Pailas Canton
- Puerto Pailas pop 2800 - Diez de Noviembre pop 716 - Guapuru pop 502
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.
- ↑ INE social data Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 4.99 MB)
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Cotoca - General Maps No. 70102
- Municipio Cotoca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 538 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )