Municipio Luribay

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Municipio Luribay
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		11,139 inhabitants (2012 census)
21 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-0901
Telephone code (+591)
surface 522 km²
height 3000  m
Coordinates 17 ° 0 ′  S , 67 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 0 ′  S , 67 ° 35 ′  W
Municipio Luribay (Bolivia)
Municipio Luribay
Municipio Luribay
politics

Department La Paz
province Loayza Province
Central place Luribay
climate
Climate diagram Luribay
Climate diagram Luribay

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

Location in the vicinity

The municipality Luribay is one of five municipalities in the province of Loayza and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered by the Municipio Sapahaqui to the west, the Province of Aroma to the south, the Municipio Yaco to the southeast , the Municipio Malla to the east, and the Municipio Cairoma to the northeast .

The municipality has 77 localities ( localidades ), the administrative seat of the municipality is Luribay with 603 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality, the largest place in the municipality is Anchallani with 765 inhabitants. ( 2012 )

geography

The municipality of Luribay lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a typical daytime climate in which the temperature differences between day and night are greater than the temperature differences between the seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 15 ° C and fluctuates between 11 and 12 ° C in June / July and a good 16 ° C in November (see climate diagram). Annual precipitation is 600 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to August and monthly precipitation of more than 100 mm in January and February.

population

The population of the municipality of Luribay has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 9 144 census
2001 9 004 census
2012 11 139 census

The municipality had a population density of 21.3 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.8 years, and infant mortality fell from 7.7 percent (1992) to 7.0 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 78.5 percent, 90.1 percent for men and 67.6 percent for women (2001) .

74.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 97.3 percent speak Aymara , and 0.1 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

99.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 96.2 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

71.6 percent of the total of 2,286 households have a radio, 8.1 percent a television, 22.2 percent a bicycle, 0.3 percent a motorcycle, 2.6 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 UVA GENUPOL MAS-IPSP MPS
5,272   4,862 4.038   1,476 1,240 1,013 309
  92.2% 83.1%   36.6% 30.7% 25.1% 7.7%

structure

The municipality was subdivided in the census 2012 in the following six cantons ( cantones ):

Localities in the municipality of Luribay
  • Canton of Eduardo Abaroa Colliri
  • Canton of Poroma

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

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