Municipio Pailón
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| Population (state) - population density |
37,866 inhabitants (2012 census) 4 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 07-0502 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 10,175 km² | ||
| height | 300 m | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 43 ′ S , 62 ° 8 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Chiquitos Province | ||
| Central place | Pailón | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pailón |
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The Municipio Pailón is a district in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality Pailón is one of three municipalities in the province of Chiquitos and includes its western area. It borders in the north on the province of Ñuflo de Chávez , in the west on the province Andrés Ibáñez , in the south on the province Cordillera , and in the east on the municipality of San José de Chiquitos .
The municipality extends between about 17 ° 12 'and 18 ° 19' south latitude and 61 ° 07 'and 62 ° 49' west longitude, its extent from west to east is up to 170 km, from north to south up to 115 km .
The municipality comprises 58 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the city of Pailón with 9,850 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) on the western edge of the district.
geography
The municipality of Pailón is located in the Bolivian lowlands between the alluvial plains of the Río Piraí and Río Grande in the west and the Chiquitos hill country in the east. The climate is semi-humid, the temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly during the day and during the year.
The annual average temperature is 24 to 25 ° C, with monthly average temperatures between almost 27 ° C in December and January and below 21 ° C in June and July (see climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 950 mm, the dry season from July to September contrasts with a pronounced humidity period from November to February, in which the monthly values reach up to 140 mm.
population
The population of the Municipio Pailón increased roughly three times in the two decades between 1992 and 2012:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 12 955 | census |
| 2001 | 28 520 | census |
| 2012 | 37 866 | census |
| 2017 | 44 805 | Update |
The population density at the last census of 2012 was 3.7 inhabitants / km², the proportion of the urban population was 26.0 percent. The literacy rate among those over the age of 15 rose from 87.4 percent to 92.7 percent between 1992 and 2001. The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 64.3 years, the infant mortality had fallen from 6.7 percent (1992) to 6.1 percent in 2001.
63.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 9.0 percent speak Quechua , 0.9 percent each speak Aymara and Guaraní , and 34.7 percent speak a foreign mother tongue, the vast majority of whom speak Plautdietsch with standard German as the written and church language . (2001) The proportion of Plautdietsch speakers has grown significantly since 2001.
64.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 10.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
38.7 percent of households have a radio, 42.3 percent a television set, 9.3 percent a computer, 4.3 percent Internet access, and 44.4 percent a telephone. ( 2012 )
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 | TODOS | DMP | IPC | FA | ASIP | MSM | SOL | OICH | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,195 | 6,646 | 5,840 | 1,255 | 1,128 | 877 | 844 | 638 | 483 | 280 | 200 | 135 | ||
| x% | x% | 21.5% | 19.3% | 15.0% | 14.5% | 10.9% | 8.3% | 4.8% | 3.4% | 2.3% |
structure
The municipality Pailón was divided at the last census of 2012 in the following four cantons ( cantones ):
- 07-0502-01 Canton of Pailón - 48 municipalities - 29,639 inhabitants
- 07-0502-02 Canton of Cañada Larga - 1 municipality - 909 inhabitants
- 07-0502-03 Canton of Cerro Concepción - 7 municipalities - 3,947 inhabitants
- 07-0502-05 Belice Canton - 2 municipalities - 3,371 inhabitants
Localities
- Canton of Pailón
- Pailón 9850 pop - Valle Nuevo 1992 pop - Tres Cruces 1773 pop - Manitoba 1472 pop - Colonia California 1287 pop - Colonia Canadiense 2 1202 pop - Pozo del Tigre 1079 pop - Colonia Oriente 1029 pop - Rosal Centro 983 pop - La Milagrosa 967 pop - Colonia Santa Clara 868 pop - Colonia Bergthal 865 pop - Puerto Ibañez 765 pop - Colonia Fresnillo 570 pop - Colonia Hohenau 548 pop - Colonia Cupesi 523 pop
- Cañada Larga Canton
- Cañada Larga 909 pop.
- Canton of Cerro Concepción
- El Tinto 1313 pop - Colonia El Cerro 958 pop - Colonia Neuland 577 pop
- Belice Canton
- Belice 2502 pop - Las Piedras 2 869 pop
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 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.
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2011
- ↑ Municipio Pailón - Population structures 2012 ( Spanish )
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Municipio Pailón - General Maps No. 70502
- Municipio Pailón - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.18 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )