Municipio Desaguadero
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| Population (state) - population density |
6987 inhabitants (2012 census) 57 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-0804 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 122 km² | ||
| height | 3850 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 37 ′ S , 68 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| Central place | Desaguadero | ||
| climate | |||
 Desaguadero climate diagram |
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The Municipio Desaguadero is a district in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Municipio Desaguadero is one of seven Municipios of the Ingavi Province and is located in the western part of the province. It borders on Lake Titicaca to the north, the Republic of Peru to the west, the Municipio San Andrés de Machaca to the southwest , the Municipio Jesús de Machaca to the southeast , and the Municipio Guaqui to the east .
The municipality has twelve localities ( localidades ), the administrative seat of the municipality is the rural town of Desaguadero with 4,065 inhabitants in the north-western part of the municipality. ( 2012 census )
geography
The municipality of Desaguadero is located on the southwestern edge of Lake Titicaca between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano and has been affected by significant water level fluctuations in the lake over the past three millennia.
The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the temperature differences during the day are more pronounced than during the year. The annual average temperature is almost 8 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C from November to March. The mean annual precipitation is about 670 mm (see climate diagram Desaguadero) and falls above all in the months of December to March with more than 100 mm per month, from May to August there is a dry season with monthly precipitation below 15 mm.
population
The population of the Municipio Desaguadero has increased by about half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 4,337 | census |
| 2001 | 4,981 | census |
| 2012 | 6,987 | census |
The municipality had a population density of 57.3 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.1 years, and infant mortality had fallen from 8.7 percent in 1992 to 7.3 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 77.5 percent, namely 93.0 percent for men and 63.2 percent for women. ( 2001 ) 78.8 percent of the population speak Spanish , 84.8 percent speak Aymara , and 0.6 percent speak Quechua . ( 2001 )
36.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 72.9 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )
74.9 percent of the total of 1,444 households own a radio, 31.3 percent a television, 42.0 percent a bicycle, 0.4 percent a motorcycle, 5.3 percent a car, 2.4 percent a refrigerator and 4.3 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 | FIM | MAS-IPSP | ||
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| 3,452 | 3,204 | 2.211 | 1,111 | 1,100 | ||
| 92.8% | 69.0% | 50.2% | 49.8% |
structure
The municipality Desaguadero was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following two cantons ( cantones ):
- 02-0804-01 Canton Desaguadero - 9 localities - 6,008 inhabitants
- 02-0804-02 Canton of San Juan de Huancollo - 3 towns - 979 inhabitants
Localities in the municipality of Desaguadero
- Desaguadero Canton
- Desaguadero 4065 pop - Azafranal 593 pop .
- Canton of San Juan de Huancollo
- San Juan de Huancollo 406 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 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.
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Municipio Desaguadero - General Maps No. 20804
- Municipio Desaguadero - detailed map and population data (PDF; 311 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )