Municipio Sapahaqui
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| Population (state) - population density |
12,365 inhabitants (2012 census) 15 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-0902 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 823 km² | ||
| height | 2500 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 55 ′ S , 67 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Loayza Province | ||
| Central place | Sapahaqui | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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The municipality of Sapahaqui is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of Sapahaqui is one of five municipalities in the Loayza province and is located in the western part of the province. It borders the province of Aroma to the southwest , the municipality of Luribay to the southeast , the municipality of Cairoma to the northeast , and the province of Murillo to the north .
The municipality has 141 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Sapahaqui with 181 inhabitants in the western part of the municipality, the largest localities in the municipality are Tacobamba with 397 inhabitants and Khola Alta with 354 inhabitants. ( 2012 census )
geography
The municipality of Sapahaqui is located at an average altitude of 2500 m in the Serranía de Sicasica cordillera , between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The mean average temperature of the region is 12 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500 to 600 mm (see climate diagram Cochabamba), with a pronounced dry season in the months of June and July.
population
The municipality has an area of 823 km² and had a population density of 15 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2012 .
The population of the Municipio Sapahaqui has increased by half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 8 318 | census |
| 2001 | 11 790 | census |
| 2012 | 12 365 | census |
The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 61.1 years, infant mortality fell only insignificantly from 6.9 percent (1992) to 6.8 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 75.6 percent, namely 84.6 percent for men and 66.5 percent for women (2001) .
79.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 96.7 percent speak Aymara , and 0.3 percent speak Quechua . (2001)
99.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 97.9 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
100 percent of the total of 2,117 households have at least one radio, 3.4 percent a television, 27.2 percent a bicycle, 3.5 percent a motorcycle, 5.7 percent a car, 1.6 percent a refrigerator and 0.2 percent a telephone. (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 | FPV | MAS-IPSP | MPS | U.N. | ASP | ||
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| 5,870 | 5,276 | 3,829 | 1,457 | 819 | 769 | 465 | 319 | ||
| 89.9% | 72.6% | 38.1% | 21.4% | 20.1% | 12.1% | 8.3% |
structure
The municipality was subdivided in the census of 2012 in the following three cantons ( cantones ):
- 02-0902-01 Canton Sapahaqui - 78 villages - 6,313 inhabitants ( 2001: 5,687 inhabitants )
- 02-0902-02 Canton Caracato - 55 localities - 5,128 inhabitants ( 2001: 4,900 inhabitants )
- 02-0902-03 Canton Muruhuta - 8 villages - 924 inhabitants ( 2001: 1,203 inhabitants )
Localities in the municipality of Sapahaqui
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from 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
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Sapahaqui - General Maps No. 20902
- Municipio Sapahaqui - detailed map and population data (PDF; 498 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )