Municipio Ichoca
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| Population (state) - population density |
7820 inhabitants (2012 census) 9 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-1005 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 876 km² | ||
| height | 4000 m | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 10 ′ S , 67 ° 10 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Inquisivi Province | ||
| Central place | Ichoca | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Quime |
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The Municipio Ichoca is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Municipio Ichoca is one of six Municipios of the Inquisivi Province and is located in the western part of the province. It borders the province of Loayza to the west, the Oruro department and the Municipio Colquiri to the south, the Municipio Inquisivi to the east , and the Municipio Quime to the north .
The municipality has 78 localities ( localidades ), the administrative seat of the municipality and the most populous place is Ichoca with 1,326 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the central part of the district.
geography
The municipality of Ichoca is located at an average altitude of 4000 m southeast of the Quimsa Cruz Cordillera , between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a distinct time-of-day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature of the region is 9.5 ° C, due to the altitude around 1 ° C lower than the neighboring town of Quime (see climate diagram), the monthly average temperatures vary between 6 ° C in June / July and just under 12 ° C in November /December. The annual precipitation is almost 600 mm, from May to August there is a dry season with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, in the months of January and February there is a long-term average between 120 and 130 mm of rain.
population
The population of the Municipio Ichoca has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 6 685 | census |
| 2001 | 6 839 | census |
| 2012 | 7 820 | census |
The municipality had a population density of 8.9 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was only 52.0 years, and infant mortality rose from 5.4 percent ( 1992 ) to 10.6 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate among those over the age of 15 is 82.5 percent, namely 93.1 percent for men and 71.2 percent for women. ( 2001 )
82.1 percent of the population speak Spanish , 92.4 percent speak Aymara , and 0.3 percent speak Quechua . ( 2001 )
89.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 82.5 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )
67.2 percent of the total of 1,924 households have a radio, 5.7 percent a television, 22.4 percent a bicycle, 1.9 percent a motorcycle, 0.9 percent a car, 1.2 percent a refrigerator and 0.2 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 | ASP | MPS | ||
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| 1,977 | 1,770 | 1,256 | 788 | 369 | 99 | ||
| 89.5% | 71.0% | 62.7% | 29.4% | 7.9% |
structure
The municipality was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following seven cantons ( cantones ):
- 02-1005-01 Canton Ichoca - 25 localities - 3,529 inhabitants ( 2001: 2,692 inhabitants )
- 02-1005-02 Canton Franz Tamayo - 10 villages - 892 inhabitants ( 2001: 567 inhabitants )
- 02-1005-03 Canton of General Camacho - 6 villages - 830 inhabitants ( 2001: 568 inhabitants )
- 02-1005-04 Canton Gualberto Villarroel - 13 villages - 434 inhabitants ( 2001: 611 inhabitants )
- 02-1005-05 Canton German Busch - 8 villages - 898 inhabitants ( 2001: 1,061 inhabitants )
- 02-1005-06 Canton Villa San Antonio Sirarani - 6 villages - 267 inhabitants ( 2001: 458 inhabitants )
- 02-1005-07 Canton Luruhuta - 10 villages - 970 inhabitants ( 2001: 882 inhabitants )
Localities in the municipality of Ichoca
- Canton of Ichoca
- Ichoca 1326 pop.
- Canton of Franz Tamayo
- Franz Tamayo 608 pop.
- Canton General Camacho
- General Camacho pop. 366.
- Canton German Busch
- Pacollo 348 pop.
- Canton Villa San Antonio Sirarani
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 Ichoca - General Maps No. 21005
- Municipio Ichoca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 628 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )