Municipio Guaqui

Municipio Guaqui
Basic data
Population (state) ; - population density	7,278 inhabitants (2012 census) ; 40 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	02-0802
Telephone code	(+591)
surface	183 km²
height	3900 m
Coordinates	16 ° 37 ′ S , 68 ° 50 ′ W Coordinates: 16 ° 37 ′ S , 68 ° 50 ′ W
	Municipio Guaqui
	Municipio Guaqui
politics
Department	La Paz
province	Ingavi Province
Central place	Guaqui
climate
	; Desaguadero climate diagram

The municipality of Guaqui is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Guaqui is one of seven municipalities in the province of Ingavi and is located in the north-western part of the province. It borders the Municipio Desaguadero to the west, the Municipio Jesús de Machaca to the south, the Municipio Taraco to the southeast , the Municipio Tiahuanacu to the east , and Lake Titicaca to the north .

The municipality has 19 localities ( localidades ), the administrative seat of the municipality is Guaqui with 768 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality. The largest town in the municipality is Puerto Guaqui with 1,238 inhabitants. ( 2012 census )

geography

The municipality of Guaqui is located southeast 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 typical of the time of day , in which the temperature differences in the mean course of the day are more pronounced than in the course of 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 Guaqui has increased by almost a third in the past two decades, but has been declining recently:

year	Residents	source
1992	5 810	census
2001	7 552	census
2012	7 278	census

The municipality had a population density of 39.8 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 63.7 years, and infant mortality had fallen from 8.0 percent in 1992 to 5.7 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 71.1 percent, 88.9 percent for men and 55.9 percent for women. ( 2001 )

75.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 87.9 percent speak Aymara , and 0.6 percent speak Quechua . ( 2001 )

57.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 75.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

68.6 percent of the total of 2,272 households have a radio, 22.1 percent a television, 40.9 percent a bicycle, 0.4 percent a motorcycle, 2.3 percent a car, 1.6 percent a refrigerator and 1.2 percent Percent a phone. ( 2001 )