Municipio Humanata

Municipio Humanata
	; Río Suches in the Municipio Humanata
Basic data
Residents (state)	5342 pop. (2012 census)
Post Code	02-0404
Telephone code	(+591)
height	4200 m
Coordinates	15 ° 24 ′ S , 69 ° 11 ′ W Coordinates: 15 ° 24 ′ S , 69 ° 11 ′ W
	Municipio Humanata
	Municipio Humanata
politics
Department	La Paz
province	Eliodoro Camacho Province
Central place	Humanata
climate
	; Climate diagram Puerto Acosta

The municipality Humanata (also: Umanata ) is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes -State Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The Municipio Humanata was established as an independent municipality by law in 2009 and essentially emerged from the canton Umanata, which until 2009 was one of the nine cantons of the municipality Puerto Acosta .

Today the Municipio Humanata is one of five Municipios of the Province of Eliodoro Camacho and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It borders the Republic of Peru to the northwest , the Municipio Puerto Acosta to the southwest and south , and the Municipio Mocomoco to the east .

The municipality consists of 30 sub-cantons ( vicecantones ) and has 41 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Humanata with 426 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southern part of the municipality.

geography

The Municipio Humanata is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Real .

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 850 mm (see climate diagram Puerto Acosta). The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between almost 6 ° C in July and a good 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in June to August and a humidity period from December to March with values between 120 and 170 mm.

population

The population of the Municipio Humanata has decreased by almost a quarter in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	6 609	census
2001	6 447	census
2012	5,342	census

For the entire municipality of Puerto Acosta, the last census in 2001 included the following data:

The municipality had a population density of 33.2 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns was 59.8 years, and infant mortality had increased from 6.5 percent (1992) to 7.4 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate among those over the age of 15 was 72.6 percent, namely 87.5 percent for men and 58.9 percent for women.
51.1 percent of the population speak Spanish , 97.3 percent speak Aymara , and 0.2 percent speak Quechua .
82.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 87.1 percent live without sanitary facilities .
45.2 percent of households own a radio, 4.5 percent a television, 22.1 percent a bicycle, 0.4 percent a motorcycle, 0.5 percent a car, 0.1 percent a refrigerator, and 0.2 percent a telephone.