Municipio Quillacas

Municipio Santuario de Quillacas
Basic data
Population (state) - population density	3983 inhabitants (2012 census) 2 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	04-0202
Telephone code	(+591)
surface	2,485 km²
height	3750  m
Coordinates	19 ° 23 ′  S , 66 ° 52 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 23 ′  S , 66 ° 52 ′  W
Municipio Santuario de Quillacas
politics
Department	Oruro
province	Eduardo Avaroa Province
Central place	Santuario de Quillacas
climate
Climate diagram Pampa Aullagas

The Municipio Santuario de Quillacas (or also: Quillacas ) is a district in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Santuario de Quillacas is the southern of the two separate municipalities in the province of Eduardo Avaroa . It borders the province of Sebastián Pagador to the north and northeast , the province of Ladislao Cabrera to the west, and the Department of Potosí to the south and southeast .

The central place of the district is Santuario de Quillacas with 910 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the northwestern part of the municipality, a few kilometers from the southern shore of Lake Poopó .

geography

The municipality of Santuario de Quillacas is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Cordillera Azanaques , which is part of the Cordillera Central mountain range . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the fluctuations between the seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate diagram Pampa Aullagas) and fluctuates between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in the summer months from November to March. Annual precipitation is less than 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to November with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, with a maximum of 75 mm in January.

population

The population of the municipality has almost doubled over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 2,265 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 3,305 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 3,983 inhabitants (census)

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was only 48.9 years, the proportion of the urban population is 0.0 percent.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 82 percent, 96 percent for men and 67 percent for women ( 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		AYNI	MAS-IPSP
1,728		1,547	1,140		640	500
		89.5%	73.3%		56.1%	43.9%

In March 2012, border disputes escalated between Quillacas and the neighboring municipality of Coroma in the Department of Potosí. In violent clashes between the two divided border communities there were 25 injured and two seriously injured, in Oruro the regional trade union federation COD and around 500 miners accused the government in La Paz of inactivity, and in the departmental capital Potosí Because of the protests there, all public life stood still for 24 hours. Autonomy Minister Claudia Peña declared the strike "political and unjustified". As early as the first weekend in March there was a written agreement between the two communities for a peaceful settlement of the conflict over arable land. The local pacification is above all the task of those affected, said Peña.

structure

The municipality was divided in the census 2012 in the following three cantons ( cantones ):

• 04-0202-01 Canton Santuario de Quillacas - 19 towns - 1,593 inhabitants
• 04-0202-02 Sevaruyo Canton - 1 village - 749 inhabitants
• 04-0202-03 Canton of Soraga - 27 localities - 1,641 inhabitants

Localities in the municipality of Quillacas

• Canton of Santuario de Quillacas
  • Santuario de Quillacas 910 pop.

• Sevaruyo Canton
  • Sevaruyo 749 pop.

• Soraga Canton
  • Soraga pop. 267.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
3. ↑ 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. 
4. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
5. ↑ Bolivia: Dispute over arable land ( Memento of March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) March 10, 2012

Web links

• Municipio Santuario de Quillacas - General Maps No. 40202
• Municipio Santuario de Quillacas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 461 kB) ( Spanish )
• Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )