Municipio Pazña
| Municipio Pazña | |||
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| Population (state) - population density |
5955 inhabitants (2012 census) 6 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 04-0602 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 1,072 km² | ||
| height | 3800 m | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 36 ′ S , 66 ° 54 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Poopó Province | ||
| Central place | Pazña | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Challapata |
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The Municipio Pazña is a district in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Municipio Pazña is one of three Municipios in the Poopó Province . It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Poopó and the province of Cercado , to the west by the province of Saucarí , to the south by the province of Sud Carangas and the province of Eduardo Avaroa , and to the east and northeast by the municipality of Antequera .
The central place of the municipality is Pazña with 1,407 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the central part of the district on the eastern edge of the Poopó plain.
geography
The Municipio Pazña is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Azanaques , a section of the Cordillera Central . The mean annual temperature of the region is around 9 ° C (see Challapata climate diagram), the annual rainfall is 330 mm. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November / December. The monthly precipitation is below 15 mm in the months of April to October and only falls from December to March in a significant amount of 60 to 80 mm.
population
The population of the Municipio Pazña has decreased to less than half in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 8,068 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 5,469 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 5,955 inhabitants (census)
The population density of the municipality is 5.6 inhabitants / km² at the 2012 census, the proportion of the urban population is 0 percent. The life expectancy of newborns at the 2001 census was 59.1 years.
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 82 percent, 95 percent for men and 71 percent for women. ( 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 | U.N. | ||
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| 2,643 | 2,376 | 1,635 | 763 | 488 | 384 | ||
| 89.9% | 68.8% | 46.7% | 29.8% | 23.5% |
Cañadón Peñas
After the decline of mining in the region, agriculture is the only source of income for the impoverished population, a difficult situation given the climatic conditions of the valley: during the day there is scorching heat, at night there is frost, so that with extreme drought, the fields are drained and the harvests are sparse .
Cañadón Peñas ( cañadón = field in the valley that is flooded when it rains; peña = rock, mountain ) is the name for the amalgamation of the two cantons of Pazña and Antequera, which have been one of fifteen " Millennium Villages " since the middle of the first decade in the new century are supported by the German World Hunger Aid . In joint workshops, the inhabitants of the Antequera Valley, together with experts from Welthungerhilfe, have drawn up a five-year plan that aims to implement improvements in four areas: nutrition, the economy, education, and a say for women. Welthungerhilfe supports the 13,000 rural residents of the region in improving animal husbandry, setting up small cheese dairies, and setting up schools with lunch.
structure
The municipality is divided into the following five cantons ( cantones ):
- 04-0602-01 Canton Pazña - 9 villages - 1,836 inhabitants - in the west of the municipality
- 04-0602-02 Canton Urmiri - 15 localities - 442 inhabitants - in the central area of the municipality
- 04-0602-03 Canton Peñas - 6 localities - 1,680 inhabitants - in the southeast of the municipality
- 04-0602-04 Canton Avicaya - 3 localities - 733 inhabitants - in the north of the municipality
- 04-0602-05 Canton Totoral - 5 localities - 1,264 inhabitants - in the north of the municipality
Localities in the Municipio Pazña
- Pazña Canton
- Pazña Pop. 1407.
- Urmiri Canton
- Urmiri 168 pop.
- Canton of Peñas
- Peñas 1386 pop.
- Canton of Avicaya
- Avicaya 616 pop.
- Canton of Totoral
- Totoral 1128 pop.
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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
- ↑ Welthungerhilfe ( Memento of the original from January 9, 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.
Web links
- Municipio Pazña - General Maps No. 40602
- Municipio Pazña - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )