Municipio of San Antonio de Esmoruco

Municipio of San Antonio de Esmoruco
	; San Antonio de Esmoruco
Basic data
Population (state) ; - population density	2284 inhabitants (2012 census) ; 1 inhabitant / km²
Post Code	05-1003
Telephone code	(+591)
surface	2,445 km²
height	4400 m
Coordinates	22 ° 3 ′ S , 66 ° 38 ′ W Coordinates: 22 ° 3 ′ S , 66 ° 38 ′ W
	Municipio of San Antonio de Esmoruco
	Municipio of San Antonio de Esmoruco
politics
Department	Potosí
province	Sur Lípez Province
Central place	San Antonio de Esmoruco
	; Location of the Municipio of San Antonio de Esmoruco ; in the Department of Potosí
climate
	; Climate diagram San Pablo de Lípez

The municipality of San Antonio de Esmoruco is a district in the Department of Potosí in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of San Antonio de Esmoruco is one of the three municipalities in the province of Sur Lípez . It borders the Municipio San Pablo de Lípez to the north and west, the Republic of Argentina to the southeast and east, and the Municipio Mojinete to the northeast . It extends over a length of about 90 kilometers and an average width of about 50 kilometers from northeast to southwest.

The central place of the district is San Antonio de Esmoruco with 993 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the northeastern part of the municipality.

geography

The municipality of San Antonio is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Lípez in the east. The region's climate is arid and has a time-of-day climate.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 6 ° C (see climate diagram San Pablo), with a monthly average of just under 1 ° C in July and 8 ° C from December to February. The annual precipitation is low 170 mm, whereby the months April to October are almost free of precipitation. Significant precipitation falls only from November to March, with a maximum of 45 mm monthly precipitation in January.

population

The population of the Municipio San Antonio has doubled in the past two decades:

1992 : 1,109 inhabitants ( census )
2001 : 1,666 inhabitants (census)
2010 : 2,284 inhabitants (census)

The population density of the municipality at the 2012 census was 0.9 inhabitants / km², the proportion of the urban population is 0 percent. The proportion of the population aged under 15 is 48.3 percent.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 79 percent, 94 percent for men and 64 percent for women. The most important idiom with a share of 98 percent is Quechua , 87 percent of the population speak Spanish . 92 percent of the population are Catholic, 6 percent Protestant.

The life expectancy of newborns is 59 years. 99.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 92 percent live without sanitary facilities.