Municipio of San Pedro de Totora
| Municipio of San Pedro de Totora | |||
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| Population (state) - population density |
5531 inhabitants (2012 census) 4 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 04-1301 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 1,416 km² | ||
| height | 3950 m | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 50 ′ S , 68 ° 10 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | San Pedro de Totora Province | ||
| Central place | Totora | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Curahuara de Carangas |
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The municipality of San Pedro de Totora 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 San Pedro de Totora is the only municipality in the province of San Pedro de Totora . It is bordered to the north by the La Paz department , to the west and southwest by the province of Sajama , to the southeast by the province of Carangas , and to the east by the province of Nor Carangas . The municipality of San Pedro de Totora lies between 17 ° 41 'and 18 ° 06' south latitude and between 67 ° 33 'and 67 ° 58' west longitude . The municipality extends over 45 kilometers in east-west and over 50 kilometers in north-south direction.
The central place of the municipality is Totora with 270 inhabitants (2012 census) in the northeastern part of the district, the largest village is Culta with 604 inhabitants in the southeast of the district.
geography
The municipality of San Pedro de Totora is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Serranía de Huayllamarca in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate, with temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 450 mm (see the climate diagram Curahuara de Carangas). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only marginally between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.
population
The population of the municipality of San Pedro de Totora has increased by almost half in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 4,040 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 4,941 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 5,531 inhabitants (update)
The population density of the municipality at the last census in 2012 was 3.9 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 57.1 years.
The literacy rate among those over the age of 15 was 82.9 percent ( 2001 ). The most important idiom of the province is Aymara , which is spoken by 97 percent of the population.
99 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 94 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).
83.5 percent of those in employment work in agriculture, 4 percent in industry and 12.5 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).
64 percent of the population are Catholic, 25 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).
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 | FPV | MSM | ||
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| 2,289 | 2,049 | 1,324 | 848 | 254 | 222 | ||
| 89.5% | 64.6% | 64.0% | 19.2% | 16.8% |
structure
The municipality is divided into the following seven cantons ( cantones ):
- 04-1301-01 Canton Totora (in the northeastern part of the municipality) - 33 localities - 2,341 inhabitants
- 04-1301-02 Canton of Huacanapi (in the southern part of the municipality) - 10 towns - 844 inhabitants
- 04-1301-03 Canton Marquirivi (in the southeastern part of the municipality) - 3 localities - 367 inhabitants
- 04-1301-04 Canton Crucero (in the western part of the municipality) - 9 localities - 527 inhabitants
- 04-1301-05 Canton Chojña Cota (in the western part of the municipality) - 5 localities - 332 inhabitants
- 04-1301-06 Canton Calazaya (in the northwestern part of the municipality) - 8 localities - 451 inhabitants
- 04-1301-07 Canton Culta (in the southern part of the municipality) - 2 localities - 669 inhabitants
Localities in the municipality of San Pedro de Totora
- Canton of Totora
- Totora 270 pop.
- Canton of Marquirivi
- Canton of Crucero
- Crucero 107 pop.
- Chojña Cota canton
- Canton of Calazaya
- Canton of Culta
- Culta 604 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
- Municipio San Pedro de Totora - General Maps No. 41301
- Municipio San Pedro de Totora - detailed map and population data (PDF; 367 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )