Municipio Teoponte

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Municipio Teoponte
Basic data

Residents (state) 10,439 pop. (2012 census)
Post Code 02-0608
Telephone code (+591)
height 1000  m
Coordinates 15 ° 21 ′  S , 67 ° 39 ′  W Coordinates: 15 ° 21 ′  S , 67 ° 39 ′  W
Municipio Teoponte (Bolivia)
Municipio Teoponte
Municipio Teoponte
politics

Department La Paz
province Larecaja Province
Central place Teoponte
climate
Climate diagram Guanay
Climate diagram Guanay

The Municipio Teoponte is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality Teoponte is one of eight municipalities in the province of Larecaja and is located in the north-eastern part of the province. It borders the province of Franz Tamayo to the north, the municipality of Guanay to the west and south , the province of Caranavi to the southeast and the province of Sud Yungas to the east .

The municipality measures 45 kilometers from north to south and from west to east. The municipality comprises 112 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the town of Teoponte with 1,519 inhabitants in the southwestern part of the district. ( 2012 census )

geography

The municipality of Teoponte is located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in the Bolivian Yungas lowlands in the catchment area of ​​the Río Beni , one of the most important rivers of the Amazon lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C (see climate diagram Guanay), the annual precipitation is about 1600 mm. The region does not show a pronounced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 23 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from November to January, and the day and night temperatures also show only slight fluctuations. The monthly precipitation is less than 50 mm in the months of June and July and more than 200 mm from December to February.

population

The population of the Municipio Teoponte has been subject to significant fluctuations in the past two decades, but has increased slightly overall:

year Residents source
1992 9 438 census
2001 7 109 census
2012 10 439 census

The infant mortality rate in the municipality Teoponte has fallen from 9.4 percent (1992) to 7.6 percent in 2001, the literacy rate among the over six-year-olds was 88.6 percent in the 2,001th

92.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 44.5 percent speak Aymara , and 9.5 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

54.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 70.1 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

65.0 percent of 2,287 households have a radio, 13.2 percent a television, 16.4 percent a bicycle, 1.3 percent a motorcycle, 2.1 percent a car, 8.7 percent a refrigerator, 0.1 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 MAS-IPSP
2,839   2,250 1,140   1,140
  79.3% 50.7%   100.0%

structure

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

Localities in the municipality of Teoponte

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 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

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