Municipio Mapiri

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Municipio Mapiri
Basic data

Residents (state) 13,817 pop. (2012 census)
Post Code 02-0607
Telephone code (+591)
height 1000  m
Coordinates 15 ° 22 ′  S , 68 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 15 ° 22 ′  S , 68 ° 17 ′  W
Municipio Mapiri (Bolivia)
Municipio Mapiri
Municipio Mapiri
politics

Department La Paz
province Larecaja Province
Central place Mapiri
climate
Climate diagram Mapiri
Climate diagram Mapiri

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

Location in the vicinity

The Municipio Mapiri is one of eight Municipios of the Larecaja Province and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It borders in the north on the province of Franz Tamayo , in the northwest on the province of Bautista Saavedra , in the west on the municipality Tacacoma , in the southwest and south on the municipality Sorata , in the southeast on the municipality Tipuani , and in the east on the municipality Guanay .

The Municipio Mapiri measures 60 kilometers from north to south and up to 40 kilometers from west to east. The municipality comprises 45 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the city of Mapiri with 3,446 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the central part of the district.

geography

The Municipio Mapiri is located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in the lowlands of the Río Beni, one of the most important rivers of the Amazon lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is a good 23 ° C (see Mapiri climate diagram), the annual precipitation is almost 1400 mm. The region has a less pronounced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 21 ° C in June and July and just under 28 ° C in November and December, and the day and night temperatures also show only slight fluctuations. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of June and July and over 200 mm in December.

population

The population of the Municipio Mapiri has increased by about half in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 9 227 census
2001 9 633 census
2012 13 817 census

The infant mortality rate in the municipality has dropped from 8.5 percent (1992) to 7.6 percent in 2001, the literacy rate among the over six-year-olds was 88.3 percent in the 2,001th

95.5 percent of the population speak Spanish , 43.5 percent speak Quechua , and 18.5 percent speak Aymara . (2001)

47.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 74.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

65.7 percent of the 2,284 households have a radio, 32.9 percent a television, 11.7 percent a bicycle, 3.4 percent a motorcycle, 2.1 percent a car, 17.1 percent a refrigerator, 0.6 percent a telephone. (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 MSM ASP
4,522   3,776 2,522   1,001 962 559
  83.5% 66.8%   39.7% 38.1% 22.2%

structure

The municipality was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following two cantons ( cantones ):

Localities in the municipality of Mapiri

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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