Municipio Puerto Pérez

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Municipio Puerto Pérez
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		7028 inhabitants (2012 census)
64 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-1204
Telephone code (+591)
surface 109 km²
height 3850  m
Coordinates 16 ° 20 ′  S , 68 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 20 ′  S , 68 ° 35 ′  W
Municipio Puerto Pérez (Bolivia)
Municipio Puerto Pérez
Municipio Puerto Pérez
politics

Department La Paz
province Los Andes Province
Central place Puerto Perez
climate
Climate diagram El Alto
Climate diagram El Alto

The municipality of Puerto Pérez is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Puerto Pérez is one of four municipalities in the province of Los Andes and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered by Lake Titicaca to the northwest , the Municipio Pucarani to the west and south , and the Municipio Batallas to the east .

The municipality has 42 localities ( localidades ), the administrative seat of the municipality is Puerto Pérez with 578 inhabitants in the northern part of the municipality. ( 2012 census )

geography

The municipality of Puerto Pérez is located at a mean altitude of 3850  m southeast of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500–600 mm (see climate diagram El Alto). The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

population

The population of the municipality of Puerto Pérez has decreased by almost ten percent in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 7 586 census
2001 7 830 census
2012 7 028 census

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 56.1 years, and infant mortality rose from 7.6 percent (1992) to 9.0 percent in 2001. The municipality had a population density of 64.5 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 .

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 65.8 percent, namely 82.5 percent for men and 50.4 percent for women (2001) .

59.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 97.8 percent speak Aymara , and 0.1 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

63.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 76.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

65.4 percent of the total of 2,451 households have a radio, 11.5 percent a television, 29.7 percent a bicycle, 0.2 percent a motorcycle, 0.7 percent a car, 0.2 percent a refrigerator and 0.7 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 MAYA ASP MPS URNA MSM MAS-IPSP
3,737   3,469 2,493   574 528 457 377 352 205
  92.8% 71.9%   23.0% 21.2% 18.3% 15.1% 14.1% 8.2%

structure

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

Localities in the municipality of Puerto Pérez

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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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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