Municipio Puerto Quijarro
| Municipio Puerto Quijarro | |||
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| Population (state) - population density |
16,659 inhabitants (2012 census) 15 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 07-1402 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 1,130 km² | ||
| height | 140 m | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 30 ′ S , 57 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Germán Busch Province | ||
| Central place | Puerto Quijarro | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Puerto Suárez |
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The municipality of Puerto Quijarro is a district in the Santa Cruz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of Puerto Quijarro is one of three municipalities in the province of Germán Busch and includes the eastern areas of the province. It borders the province of Ángel Sandoval to the north, the municipality of Puerto Suárez to the west and southwest and the Republic of Brazil to the east .
The municipality extends between about 18 ° 00 'and 19 ° 07' south latitude and 57 ° 26 'and 57 ° 52' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 30 kilometers and from north to south up to 130 kilometers .
The municipality comprises five municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the city of Puerto Quijarro with 11,071 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southeastern part of the district, the second largest village is Arroyo Concepción with 5,302 inhabitants, the southeastern neighbor of Puerto Quijarro.
geography
The municipality of Puerto Quijarro is located in the Bolivian lowlands at the edge of the Pantanal , one of the largest inland - wetlands of the earth. The climate is subtropical and only has a short dry season in the winter months .
The mean average temperature of the region is around 26 ° C (see climate diagram Puerto Suárez) and varies only marginally between 22 and 23 ° C in June and July and 28 and 29 ° C from October to February. The annual precipitation is just over 1000 mm, with monthly precipitation of less than 30 mm in June and August and an extended humidity period from November to March with over 100 mm monthly precipitation each time.
population
The population of the municipality of Puerto Quijarro has more than doubled in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 7,932 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 12,903 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 16,659 inhabitants (census)
The population density of the district in the last census of 2012 was 14.7 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among those over 15 years of age had increased from 94.0 percent (1992) to 96.1 percent. The life expectancy of the newborns was 68.6 years, the infant mortality had increased slightly from 4.3 percent ( 1992 ) to 4.5 percent in 2001.
97.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 9.5 percent speak Quechua , 3.9 percent Aymara , 0.4 percent Guaraní and 0.7 percent speak other indigenous languages . (2001)
20.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 7.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
72.6 percent of 2,629 households have a radio, 72.6 percent also have a television, 47.8 percent a bicycle, 3.5 percent a motorcycle, 28.1 percent a car, 47.3 percent a refrigerator, and 35, 9 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 | FPV | MSM | FA | UDER | TODOS | MAS-IPSP | VERDES | ASIP | ||
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| 9,336 | 7,485 | 6,380 | 1,641 | 1,291 | 961 | 920 | 573 | 460 | 360 | 174 | ||
| 80.2% | 85.2% | 25.7% | 20.2% | 15.1% | 14.4% | 9.0% | 7.2% | 5.6% | 2.7% |
structure
The municipality of Puerto Quijarro is divided into the following four sub-cantons ( vicecantones ):
- Vicecantón Arroyo Concepción - 1 municipality - 3,574 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Vicecantón El Carmen de la Frontera - 2 parishes - 308 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Puerto Menor Mandiore - 1 municipality - 58 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Puerto Quijarro - 1 municipality - 8,963 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Municipio Puerto Quijarro - General Maps No. 71402
- Municipio Puerto Quijarro - detailed map and population data (PDF 1.59 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Puerto Quijarro - Information from the Santa Cruz Departmental Government ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )