Municipio Mecapaca
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| Population (state) - population density |
16,027 inhabitants (2012 census) 32 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-0103 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 505 km² | ||
| height | 3700 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 43 ′ S , 67 ° 59 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Murillo Province | ||
| Central place | Mecapaca | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Mecapaca |
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The municipality Mecapaca is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Municipio Mecapaca is one of five Municipios of the Murillo Province and is located in the southern part of the province. It borders on the municipality of Achocalla in the west, on the province of Aroma in the southwest , and on the province of Loayza in the south, on the municipality of Palca in the east , and on the municipality of La Paz in the north .
The municipality has 64 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Mecapaca with 998 inhabitants in the northwestern part of the municipality. Other populous places in the municipality are Huajchilla with 1,078 inhabitants, El Palomar with 1,077 inhabitants, Yupampa Valencia with 936 inhabitants and Santiago de Collana with 931 inhabitants. ( 2012 census )
geography
The municipality of Mecapaca is located on the edge of the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3700 m on the western edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and is traversed by the Río de la Paz from northwest to southeast . The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which temperature fluctuations are greater during the day than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the municipality is 16 ° C (see climate diagram Mecapaca), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between almost 14 ° C in June / July and almost 18 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 550 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm from May to August and 120 mm in January.
population
The population of the Municipio Mecapaca has increased by more than two thirds in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 9 566 | census |
| 2001 | 11 782 | census |
| 2012 | 16 027 | census |
The municipality had a population density of 31.7 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.0 years, and infant mortality fell from 7.9 percent (1992) to 7.3 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 79.6 percent, 88.4 percent for men and 70.5 percent for women (2001) .
81.5 percent of the population speak Spanish , 83.0 percent speak Aymara , and 0.5 percent speak Quechua . (2001)
44.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 72.0 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
72.7 percent of the 2,942 households own a radio, 39.3 percent a television, 16.8 percent a bicycle, 1.0 percent a motorcycle, 13.4 percent a car, 11.4 percent a refrigerator, 7.1 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 | MPS | MAS-IPSP | MSM | U.N. | AS | FPV | ||
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| 7.122 | 6,506 | 4,579 | 1,114 | 1,085 | 923 | 697 | 410 | 350 | ||
| 91.4% | 70.4% | 24.3% | 23.7% | 20.2% | 15.2% | 9.0% | 7.6% |
structure
The municipality was subdivided in the census of 2012 in the following three cantons ( cantones ):
- 02-0103-01 Canton Mecapaca - 34 localities - 10,911 inhabitants
- 02-0103-02 Canton of Santiago de Collana - 6 localities - 2,022 inhabitants
- 02-0103-03 Canton of Chanca - 24 towns - 3,094 inhabitants
Localities in the municipality of Mecapaca
- Mecapaca Canton
- Huajchilla 1078 pop - El Palomar 1077 pop - Mecapaca 998 pop - Yupampa Valencia 936 pop - Las Carreras 842 pop - Taypichulo 789 pop - Huaricana Alta 696 pop - Avircato 628 pop - Huayhuasi 541 pop .
- Canton of Santiago de Collana
- Santiago de Collana 931 Pop.
- Canton of Chanca
- Janko Suni 417 pop.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 Mecapaca - General Maps No. 20103
- Municipio Mecapaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 447 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )