Municipio Santiago de Machaca

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Municipio Santiago de Machaca
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		4593 inhabitants (2012 census)
4 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-1901
Telephone code (+591)
surface 1,255 km²
height 3900  m
Coordinates 17 ° 10 ′  S , 69 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 10 ′  S , 69 ° 15 ′  W
Municipio Santiago de Machaca (Bolivia)
Municipio Santiago de Machaca
Municipio Santiago de Machaca
politics

Department La Paz
province José Manuel Pando Province
Central place Santiago de Machaca
climate
Climate diagram El Alto
Climate diagram El Alto

The municipality of Santiago de Machaca is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Santiago de Machaca is one of two municipalities in the province of José Manuel Pando and is located in the eastern part of the province. It borders the Republic of Peru and the Municipio Catacora to the west, the Pacajes Province to the south and southeast , and the Ingavi Province to the north .

The municipality has 111 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Santiago de Machaca with 9 inhabitants in the northwestern part of the municipality, the only notable larger town is Alto Alianza with 448 inhabitants ( 2012 census ).

geography

The municipality of Santiago de Machaca is located at an average altitude of 3900  m southwest of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500 to 600 mm (see climate diagram El Alto). The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between less than 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 Santiago de Machaca has increased only slightly in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 3 735 census
2001 4 402 census
2012 4,500 census

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 64.6 years, and infant mortality fell from 7.9 percent (1992) to 5.3 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 87.9 percent, 97.0 percent for men and 79.0 percent for women (2001) .

79.3 percent of the population speak Spanish , 89.5 percent speak Aymara , and 0.3 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

90.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 49.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

72.9 percent of the total of 1,608 households have a radio, 2.3 percent a television, 50.5 percent a bicycle, 1.4 percent a motorcycle, 1.3 percent a car, 0.4 percent a refrigerator and 0.1 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 MAS-IPSP MSM MTL U.N.
1,858   1,677 1,131   532 244 233 122
  90.3% 67.4%   47.0% 21.6% 20.6% 10.8%

structure

The municipality was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following six cantons ( cantones ):

Localities in the municipality of Santiago de Machaca

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

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