Municipio El Puente (Santa Cruz)

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Municipio El Puente
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		14,205 inhabitants (2012 census)
2 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 07-1503
Telephone code (+591)
surface 7,611 km²
height 250  m
Coordinates 16 ° 5 ′  S , 63 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 5 ′  S , 63 ° 30 ′  W
Municipio El Puente (Bolivia)
Municipio El Puente
Municipio El Puente
politics

Department Santa Cruz
province Guarayos Province
Central place El Puente
climate
Climate diagram Urubichá
Climate diagram Urubichá

The municipality of El Puente 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 El Puente is one of three Municipios in the Guarayos Province . It borders on the Beni Department in the north, the Ichilo Province in the northwest, the Obispo Santistevan Province in the southwest, the Ñuflo de Chávez Province in the south and east , and the Ascención de Guarayos Province in the northeast .

The municipality extends between about 15 ° 52 'and 16 ° 31' south latitude and 62 ° 38 'and 64 ° 47' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 200 kilometers and from north to south up to 70 kilometers .

The municipality comprises 109 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the rural town of El Puente with 2,379 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the eastern part of the municipality.

geography

The municipality of El Puente is located in the Moxos plain ( Spanish : Llanos de Moxos), a more than 100,000 km² flood savannah in the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm tropics .

The mean average temperature of the region is around 25 ° C (see Urubichá climate diagram) and varies only marginally between 22 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from October to February. The annual precipitation is about 1,150 mm, with a weak dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 45 mm, and a significant humidity period from November to March with monthly precipitation between 140 and 200 mm.

population

The population of the Municipio El Puente has more than doubled in the past two decades:

  • 1992 : 5,034 inhabitants ( census )
  • 2001 : 8,633 inhabitants (census)
  • 2012 : 14,205 inhabitants (update)

The population density of the municipality in the last census of 2012 was 1.9 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among those over 6 years of age had increased from 75.4 percent (1992) to 83.7 percent. The life expectancy of newborns was 60.4 years, and infant mortality had fallen from 8.8 percent (1992) to 7.8 percent in 2001.

94.8 percent of the population speak Spanish , 22.4 percent speak Quechua , 1.3 percent each speak Aymara and Guaraní , and 5.5 percent speak other indigenous languages . ( 2001 )

85.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 37.4 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )

56.9 percent of 1,822 households have a radio, 6.2 percent a television, 59.5 percent a bicycle, 2.0 percent a motorcycle, 5.2 percent a car, 5.4 percent a refrigerator, and 0.3 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 MAS-IPSP GH ASIP GCCC FA
4,692   4,055 3,384   1,796 859 410 292 27
  86.4% 83.5%   53.1% 25.4% 12.1% 8.6% 0.8%

structure

In the last census of 2012, the municipality was divided into the following two cantons :

  • Cantón El Puente - 88 localities - 10,647 inhabitants
  • Cantón Yotaú - 21 localities - 3,558 inhabitants

Localities in the municipality of El Puente

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
  2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
  3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012
  4. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

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