Municipio Tiahuanacu

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Municipio Tiahuanacu
Tiahuanaco ruins
Tiahuanaco ruins
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density 		12,189 inhabitants (2012 census)
26 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02-0803
Telephone code (+591)
surface 472 km²
height 3900  m
Coordinates 16 ° 35 ′  S , 68 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 35 ′  S , 68 ° 40 ′  W
Municipio Tiahuanacu (Bolivia)
Municipio Tiahuanacu
Municipio Tiahuanacu
politics

Department La Paz
province Ingavi Province
Central place Tiawanacu
mayor Eulogia Quispe Cabrera (2008)
climate
Climate diagram El Alto
Climate diagram El Alto

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

Location in the vicinity

The Municipio Tiahuanacu is one of seven Municipios of the Ingavi Province and is located in the northern part of the province. It borders on Lake Titicaca in the north, the Municipio Taraco in the northwest , the Municipio Guaqui in the west, the Municipio Jesús de Machaca in the south , and the province of Los Andes in the east .

The municipality has 28 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Tiawanacu with 860 inhabitants in the northern part of the municipality. The largest towns in the municipality are Huari Chico with 1,145 inhabitants and Huacullani with 1,101 inhabitants. ( 2012 census )

geography

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

The mean average temperature of the region is 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 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 Municipio Tiahuanacu has increased by almost a third in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 9 477 census
2001 11 309 census
2012 12 189 census

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 61.8 years, and infant mortality fell from 7.7 percent (1992) to 6.6 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate among those over 19 is 68.1 percent, 83.7 percent for men and 54.2 percent for women (2001) .

64.8 percent of the population speak Spanish , 95.7 percent speak Aymara , and 0.1 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

58.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 61.8 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

71.6 percent of the total of 2,950 households have a radio, 12.2 percent a television, 40.2 percent a bicycle, 0.6 percent a motorcycle, 1.1 percent a car, 0.8 percent a refrigerator and 0.8 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 FPV MSM MPS U.N. ASP
5,451   5,033 3.123   1,044 1,036 647 267 107 22nd
  92.3% 62.1%   33.4% 33.2% 20.7% 8.5% 3.4% 0.7%

structure

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

Localities in the municipality of Tiahuanacu

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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