Municipio La Paz (Bolivia)
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| Population (state) - population density |
764,617 inhabitants (2012 census) 385 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-0101 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 1,986 km² | ||
| height | 3700 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 30 ′ S , 68 ° 7 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Murillo Province | ||
| Central place | La Paz | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram La Paz |
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The municipality of La Paz (more precisely: "Nuestra Señora de La Paz") is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of La Paz is one of five municipalities in the Murillo province and is located in the northern part of the province. It borders on the municipality of El Alto in the west, on the municipality of Achocalla in the southwest , on the municipality of Mecapaca in the south, on the municipality of Palca in the southeast , on the province of Nor Yungas in the east, on the province of Caranavi in the north -east, and on the north Larecaja Province , and in the northwest to the Loayza Province .
The municipality has 62 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is La Paz with 757,184 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southern part of the municipality.
geography
The municipality of La Paz is located on the edge of the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3800 m directly west of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The region has a distinct daytime climate, in which the temperature differences between day and night fluctuate more strongly than between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the municipality is 10 ° C (see climate diagram La Paz), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 8 ° C in July and 12 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is less than 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months June to August and over 100 mm in January.
population
The population of the municipality of La Paz has increased only slightly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 715 900 | census |
| 2001 | 793 293 | census |
| 2012 | 764 617 | census |
The municipality had a population density of 385 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.7 years, and infant mortality fell from 5.8 percent (1992) to 5.4 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate among those over the age of 19 is 94.6 percent, namely 98.4 percent for men and 91.3 percent for women (2001) .
98.0 percent of the population speak Spanish , 33.5 percent speak Aymara , and 5.7 percent speak Quechua . (2001)
19.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 49.9 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
90.2 percent of households have a radio, 87.9 percent a television, 26.7 percent a bicycle, 1.3 percent a motorcycle, 19.3 percent a car, 44.1 percent a refrigerator, 50.5 percent one 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 | MSM | MAS-IPSP | U.N. | MNR | ASP | ADN | MPS | ||
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| 558.376 | 502.504 | 402.996 | 168,657 | 165.286 | 41,240 | 8,246 | 7,732 | 6,428 | 5,407 | ||
| 90.0% | 80.2% | 41.9% | 41.0% | 10.2% | 2.0% | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1.3% |
structure
The municipality is divided into the following two cantons ( cantones ):
- 02-0101-01 Canton of La Paz - 761,608 inhabitants (2012 census)
- 02-0101-02 Canton of Zongo - 3,009 inhabitants
Localities in the municipality of La Paz
- Zongo Canton
- Zongo 63 pop.
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 La Paz - General Maps No. 20101
- Municipio La Paz - detailed map and population data (PDF; 906 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department of La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )