Municipio Puerto Rico
| Municipio Puerto Rico | |||
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 On Route 13 near the Río Madre de Dios |
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| Basic data
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| Population (state) - population density |
6239 inhabitants (2012 census) 1 inhabitant / km² |
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| Post Code | 09-0201 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 5,292 km² | ||
| height | 200 m | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 22 ′ S , 67 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Manuripi Province | ||
| Central place | Puerto Rico | ||
| mayor | Walter Valverde Yañez (UN-MAR) | ||
 Location of the municipality in the department of Pando |
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| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Porvenir |
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The municipality of Puerto Rico 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 Rico is one of three municipalities in the Manuripi Province and includes its central area. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of Filadelfia , to the south by the municipality of Sena of the province of Madre de Dios , to the east by the municipality of San Pedro , to the northeast by the municipality of Santa Rosa del Abuná of the province of Abuná , and to the northwest by the municipality of Bella Flor the province of Nicolás Suárez .
The municipality extends between about 11 ° 00 'and 11 ° 51' south latitude and 67 ° 00 'and 68 ° 00' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 110 kilometers and from north to south up to 65 kilometers .
The municipality comprises 58 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the country town of Puerto Rico with 2,672 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) on the northern edge of the district. The only other notable town in the municipality is Conquista with 504 inhabitants in the southern part of the district a few kilometers from the Río Madre de Dios .
geography
The municipality of Puerto Rico is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin in the tropical rainy climate of the equatorial zone.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 26 ° C and fluctuates only insignificantly in the course of the year as well as in the course of the day; in the dry winter months from June to August alone it is slightly lower due to the nocturnal heat radiation with open cloud cover (see Porvenir climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 1,900 mm and during the rainy season shows monthly values between 150 and 300 mm for more than half of the year, only in the short dry season from June to August does the precipitation drop to monthly values below 50 mm.
population
The population of the municipality of Puerto Rico has increased by about two thirds in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 3,640 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 4,003 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 6,230 inhabitants (census)
The population density at the last census of 2012 was 1.2 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among those over 6 years of age had improved from 82.3 percent ( 1992 ) to 86.1 percent ( 2001 ). The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.3 years, the infant mortality had worsened slightly from 8.1 percent ( 1992 ) to 8.3 percent in 2001.
99.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 1.4 percent speak Quechua, and 0.7 percent speak Aymara . ( 2001 )
69.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 35.2 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )
66.5 percent of the total of 728 households (2001) have a radio, 18.8 percent a television, 41.1 percent a bicycle, 10.9 percent a motorcycle, 3.2 percent a car, 5.1 percent a refrigerator, and 0.7 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 | ||
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| 2,963 | 2,357 | 2,020 | 1,047 | 973 | ||
| 79.5% | 85.7% | 51.8% | 48.2% |
structure
The municipality of Puerto Rico was subdivided in the census 2012 in the following two cantons ( cantones ):
- 09-0201-01 Canton Conquista - 22 municipalities - 1,188 inhabitants
- 09-0201-02 Canton of Victoria (Puerto Rico) - 20 municipalities - 4,565 inhabitants
- 09-0201-03 Canton El Carmen - 16 municipalities - 486 inhabitants
Localities in the municipality of Puerto Rico
- Canton of Victoria
- Puerto Rico 2,672 pop - Conquista 504 pop - Batraja 264 pop
- Canton of El Carmen
- Manchester 42 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 Rico region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.30 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Rico - General Maps No. 90201
- Municipio Puerto Rico - detailed map and population data (PDF; 908 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )