Municipio Puerto Suarez
| Municipio Puerto Suarez |
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| Population (state) - population density |
19,829 inhabitants (2012 census) 2 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 07-1401 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 12,883 km² | ||
| height | 110 m | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 18 ′ S , 58 ° 23 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Germán Busch Province | ||
| Central place | Puerto Suarez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Puerto Suárez |
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The municipality of Puerto Suárez is a district in the Santa Cruz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of Puerto Suárez is one of three municipalities in the province of Germán Busch and includes the southern areas of the province. It borders on the municipality of El Carmen Rivero Tórrez to the north, the province of Cordillera to the west, the Republic of Paraguay to the south, the Republic of Brazil to the southeast and east , and the municipality of Puerto Quijarro to the northeast .
The municipality extends between about 17 ° 58 'and 20 ° 08' south latitude and 57 ° 47 'and 59 ° 07' west longitude, its extension from west to east is up to 120 kilometers and from north to south up to 230 kilometers .
The municipality comprises 9 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the city of Puerto Suárez with 16,643 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the eastern part of the district.
geography
The municipality of Puerto Suárez 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 fluctuates only insignificantly between 22 and 23 ° C in June and July and 28 to 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 Municipio Puerto Suárez has increased by about half in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 13,193 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 15,209 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 19,829 inhabitants (census)
The population density of the district in the last census of 2012 was 1.5 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among the over 15-year-olds had increased from 94.5 percent (1992) to 96.5 percent. The life expectancy of newborns was 68.5 years, and infant mortality had fallen from 6.3 percent ( 1992 ) to 4.3 percent in 2001.
98.0 percent of the population speak Spanish , 4.3 percent speak Quechua , 2.3 percent Aymara , 0.4 percent Guaraní , and 1.0 percent speak other indigenous languages . (2001)
27.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 8.9 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
75.7 percent of the 3,006 households have a radio, 67.5 percent a television, 46.6 percent a bicycle, 2.5 percent a motorcycle, 25.6 percent a car, 42.1 percent a refrigerator, and 31.4 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 | MANOS | FA | MAS-IPSP | VERDES | MSM | FPV | TODOS | |||
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| 9,116 | 7,591 | 6,509 | 3,250 | 1.953 | 597 | 370 | 173 | 92 | 61 | 13 | ||
| 83.3% | 85.7% | 49.9% | 30.0% | 9.2% | 5.7% | 2.7% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 0.2% |
structure
The municipality of Puerto Suárez is divided into the following eight sub-cantons ( vicecantones ):
- Vicecantón Comunidad La Colonia - 1 municipality - 186 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Vicecantón Comunidad San Juan del Mutun - 1 municipality - 150 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Comunidad San Pedrito - 1 municipality - 65 inhabitants
- Vicecantón El Salao - 1 municipality - 213 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Motacucito - 2 parishes - 290 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Paradero - 1 municipality - 1,922 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Puerto Suárez - 1 municipality - 11,594 inhabitants
- Vicecantón San Salvador - 1 municipality - 165 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 Suárez - General Maps No. 71401
- Municipio Puerto Suárez - detailed map and population data (PDF 1.59 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Puerto Suárez - Information from the Santa Cruz Departmental Government ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )