Municipio Mocomoco

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Municipio Mocomoco
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		15,916 inhabitants (2012 census)
32 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-0402
Telephone code (+591)
surface 490 km²
height 3500  m
Coordinates 15 ° 25 ′  S , 69 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 15 ° 25 ′  S , 69 ° 5 ′  W
Municipio Mocomoco (Bolivia)
Municipio Mocomoco
Municipio Mocomoco
politics

Department La Paz
province Eliodoro Camacho Province
Central place Mocomoco
climate
Climate diagram Mocomoco
Climate diagram Mocomoco

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

Location in the vicinity

The municipality Mocomoco is one of three municipalities in the province of Eliodoro Camacho and is located in the northeastern part of the province. It borders the Republic of Peru to the northwest , the Municipio Humanata and the Municipio Puerto Acosta to the west, the Municipio Escoma to the southwest , the Municipio Puerto Carabuco to the south, the Muñecas province to the east , and the Bautista province to the north Saavedra .

The municipality has 135 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Mocomoco with 439 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality.

geography

The Municipio Mocomoco is located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3500  m , on the western edge of the Cordillera Real . The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the municipality is almost 14 ° C (see climate diagram Mocomoco), the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 11 ° C in June / July and 15 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is around 750 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 20 mm from July to August and 100-150 mm from December to March.

population

The population of the Municipio Mocomoco has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 13 516 census
2001 13 950 census
2012 15 916 census

The municipality had a population density of 32.5 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 . The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.7 years; infant mortality rose slightly from 6.7 percent (1992) to 7.0 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate among those over the age of 15 is 69.7 percent, namely 82.2 percent for men and 57.0 percent for women (2001) .

36.0 percent of the population speak Spanish , 97.0 percent speak Aymara , and 0.3 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

98.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 74.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

45.0 percent of households own a radio, 0.4 percent a television, 8.8 percent a bicycle, 0.2 percent a motorcycle, 0.3 percent a car, 0.1 percent a refrigerator, 0.1 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 MPS ASP FPV
6,300   5,683 3.831   2,292 955 517 67
  90.2% 67.4%   59.8% 24.9% 13.5% 1.7%

structure

In the last census of 2012, the municipality was divided into the following six cantons :

Localities in the municipality of Mocomoco

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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