Municipio Guanay
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| Population (state) - population density |
14,788 inhabitants (2012 census) 2 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-0602 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 6,706 km² | ||
| height | 1000 m | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 41 ′ S , 67 ° 54 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Larecaja Province | ||
| Central place | Guanay | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Guanay |
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The municipality of Guanay is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of Guanay is one of eight municipalities in the province of Larecaja and is located in the eastern part of the province. It borders in the north on the province of Franz Tamayo , in the north-west on the municipality Mapiri , in the west on the municipality Tipuani and the municipality Sorata , in the southwest on the province Omasuyos , in the south on the province Los Andes , in the south-east on the province Murillo , to the east to the province of Caranavi , and to the northeast to the municipality of Teoponte .
The municipality measures up to 90 kilometers from north to south and up to 75 kilometers from west to east. The municipality has 59 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the city of Guanay with 4,165 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the central part of the district, the second largest village is Carura with 922 inhabitants.
geography
The municipality of Guanay is located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in the Bolivian Yungas lowlands in the catchment area of the Río Beni , one of the important rivers of the Amazon lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 26 ° C (see climate diagram), the annual precipitation is around 1600 mm. The region does not show a pronounced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 23 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from November to January, and the day and night temperatures also show only slight fluctuations. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of June and July and over 200 mm from December to February.
population
The population of the municipality of Guanay has increased slightly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 13 629 | census |
| 2001 | 11 528 | census |
| 2012 | 14 788 | census |
The municipality had a population density of 2.2 inhabitants / km² in the last census of 2012 , the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.0 years, the infant mortality rate was from 9.0 percent (1992) to 7.8 percent in 2001 fell, the literacy rate among those over 6 years of age was 88.6 percent.
93.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 32.0 percent speak Aymara , and 14.7 percent speak Quechua . (2001)
54.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 43.3 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
70.5 percent of 2,828 households have a radio, 26.1 percent a television, 13.1 percent a bicycle, 1.0 percent a motorcycle, 2.5 percent a car, 13.6 percent a refrigerator, 1.1 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 | ASP | MPS | ||
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| 5,232 | 4,407 | 3,024 | 1,318 | 764 | 654 | 288 | ||
| 84.2% | 68.6% | 43.6% | 25.3% | 21.6% | 9.5% |
structure
The municipality was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following seven cantons ( cantones ):
- 02-0602-01 Canton of Guanay - 35 municipalities - 8,179 inhabitants
- 02-0602-02 Canton of San Juan de Challana - 15 municipalities - 1,800 inhabitants
- 02-0602-03 San Miguel canton - 1 municipality - 57 inhabitants
- 02-0602-05 Santa Rosa de Challana canton - 14 municipalities - 2,492 inhabitants
- 02-0602-07 Mariapu canton - 13 municipalities - 1,787 inhabitants
- 02-0602-08 Canton of Pajonal Vilaque - 1 municipality - 307 inhabitants
- 02-0602-09 Canton of Sapucuni - 3 municipalities - 166 inhabitants
Localities in the municipality of Guanay
- Canton of Guanay
- Guanay pop 4165 - Candelaria pop 711 - Wituponte pop 579
- Santa Rosa de Challana canton
- Challana Pampa 562 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 Guanay - General Maps No. 20602
- Municipio Guanay - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.91 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )