Municipio Puerto Gonzales Moreno
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8,160 inhabitants (2012 census) 6 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 09-0301 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 1,275 km² | ||
| height | 150 m | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 9 ′ S , 66 ° 18 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Madre de Dios province | ||
| Central place | Puerto Gonzalo Moreno | ||
 Location of the municipality in the department of Pando |
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 Climate diagram Riberalta |
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The municipality of Puerto Gonzales Moreno is a district in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of Puerto Gonzales Moreno ( also : Puerto Gonzalo Moreno) is one of three municipalities in the province of Madre de Dios and includes its northeastern area. It borders the Municipio San Pedro in the north, the Municipio San Lorenzo in the west , and the Beni department in the southeast .
The municipality extends between about 10 ° 54 'and 11 ° 27' south latitude and 66 ° 05 'and 66 ° 30' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 45 kilometers, from north to south up to 40 kilometers .
The municipality comprises 21 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the town of Puerto Gonzalo Moreno with 1,839 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the northeastern part of the district opposite the city of Riberalta . Other larger towns are Las Piedras with 1,133 inhabitants and Portachuelo with 1,161 inhabitants, which is made up of Portachuelo Alto (219), Portachuelo Medio (440) and Portachuelo Bajo (502).
geography
The municipality of Puerto Gonzales Moreno is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin in the northeast corner of the country near the border with Brazil.
The mean average temperature of the region is 26 ° C and fluctuates only marginally between 25 ° C in May and 27-28 ° C from December to February (see climate diagram Riberalta). The annual precipitation is about 1,300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from June to August with monthly precipitation below 20 mm, and a humidity period from December to January with monthly precipitation of more than 200 mm.
population
The population of the municipality of Puerto Gonzales Moreno has increased threefold in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 2,837 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 3,810 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 8,160 inhabitants (census)
The population density in the last census of 2012 was 6.4 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among those over 6 years of age had slightly decreased from 85.1 percent ( 1992 ) to 84.7 percent ( 2001 ). The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 61.6 years, the infant mortality had fallen from 9.0 percent ( 1992 ) to 7.3 percent in 2001.
97.1 percent of the population speak Spanish , 13.5 percent speak indigenous languages . ( 2001 )
94.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 38.0 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )
57.6 percent of the 592 households have a radio, 11.0 percent a television, 33.3 percent a bicycle, 12.5 percent a motorcycle, 0.3 percent a car, 1.4 percent a refrigerator, and 0.2 percent 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 | CP | PASO | MNR | MSM | ||
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| 1,574 | 1,468 | 1,301 | 693 | 383 | 95 | 92 | 38 | ||
| 93.3% | 88.6% | 53.3% | 29.4% | 7.3% | 7.1% | 2.9% |
structure
The municipality of Puerto Gonzales Moreno was subdivided in the census of 2012 in the following two cantons ( cantones ):
- 09-0301-01 Canton Agua Dulce (Puerto Gonzalo Moreno) - 6 municipalities - 4,390 inhabitants ( 2001 : 1,813 inhabitants)
- 09-0301-02 Canton of Trinidad (Portachuelo) - 15 municipalities - 3,770 inhabitants ( 2001 : 1,997 inhabitants)
Localities in the municipality of Puerto Gonzalo Moreno
- Canton of Agua Dulce
- Puerto Gonzalo Moreno 1839 pop - Las Piedras 1133 pop - Agua Dulce 608 pop.
- Trinidad Canton
- Miraflores 667 pop - Portachuelo Bajo 502 pop
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original of 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
- Puerto Gonzalo Moreno region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.80 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Gonzalo Moreno - General Maps No. 90301
- Municipio Puerto Gonzalo Moreno - detailed map and population data (PDF; 441 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Pando - Social data (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )