Municipio El Alto
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 View over El Alto to Illimani |
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| Population (state) - population density |
843,934 inhabitants (2012 census) 2,489 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-0105 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 339 km² | ||
| height | 4000 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 25 ′ S , 68 ° 12 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Murillo Province | ||
| Central place | El Alto | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram El Alto |
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The Municipio El Alto (more precisely: "El Alto de La Paz") is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Municipio El Alto is one of five Municipios of the Murillo Province and is located in the western part of the province. It borders the province of Los Andes to the west, the province of Ingavi to the southwest , the municipality of Achocalla to the south , and the municipality of La Paz to the east .
The municipality has 4 separate localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is El Alto with 842,378 inhabitants in the southeastern part of the district.
geography
The municipality of El Alto is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 4000 m directly west of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the municipality is 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm (see climate diagram). The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of June and July and over 100 mm in January and February.
population
The population of the Municipio El Alto has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 405 492 | census |
| 2001 | 649 958 | census |
| 2012 | 843 934 | census |
The municipality had a population density of 2,489 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 62.1 years, the infant mortality had fallen slightly from 6.5 percent (1992) to 6.4 percent (2001) .
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 90.8 percent, 97.3 percent for men and 84.8 percent for women (2001) .
95.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 52.9 percent speak Aymara , and 2.9 percent speak Quechua . (2001)
14.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 36.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
81.2 percent of the 165,320 households have a radio, 70.5 percent a television, 25.8 percent a bicycle, 0.7 percent a motorcycle, 8.6 percent a car, 10.5 percent a refrigerator, 18.1 percent a telephone. (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 | MSM | U.N. | MPS | ASP | ||
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| 492,385 | 437,946 | 281.354 | 126,600 | 72,412 | 62,219 | 11,147 | 8,976 | ||
| 88.9% | 64.2% | 45.0% | 25.7% | 22.1% | 4.0% | 3.2% |
structure
The municipality is not in cantons ( cantones ) divided, but consists of the following four cantons ( subcantones ):
- 02-0105-0100-1 Subcanton Ciudad El Alto - 842,378 inhabitants (2012 census)
- 02-0105-0100-7 Alto Milluni sub-canton - 331 inhabitants
- 02-0105-0170-2 sub-canton El Ingenio - 886 inhabitants
- 02-0105-0170-5 Milluni Bajo sub-canton - 339 inhabitants
Localities in the municipality of El Alto
- Sub-canton Ciudad El Alto
- El Alto 842,378 pop.
- Sub-canton El Ingenio
- El Ingenio 886 pop.
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 El Alto - General Maps No. 20105
- Municipio El Alto - detailed map and population data (PDF; 366 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department of La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )