Municipio Tito Yupanqui
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| Population (state) - population density |
6261 inhabitants (2012 census) 391 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 02-1703 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 16 km² | ||
| height | 4000 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 11 ′ S , 68 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Manco Kapac Province | ||
| Central place | Tito Yupanqui | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram El Alto |
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The Municipio Tito Yupanqui is a district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The municipality bears its name in honor of Francisco Tito Yupanqui (1550-1616), who created the wooden statue of the " Dark Virgin " in Copacabana .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality Tito Yupanqui is one of three municipalities in the province of Manco Kapac and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered by Lake Titicaca to the south, east and north , the Municipio Copacabana to the west , and the Municipio San Pedro de Tiquina to the southeast .
The municipality has 14 localities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is Tito Yupanqui with 3,459 inhabitants in the southern part of the municipality.
geography
The municipality of Tito Yupanqui is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the Copacabana Peninsula in Lake Titicaca at an average altitude of 4050 m . The annual average temperature of the municipality is 10 ° C (see climate diagram El Alto), the annual precipitation is about 600 mm. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 8 ° 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 around 100 mm from December to February.
population
The population of the Municipio Tito Yupanqui has more than quadrupled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1 491 | census |
| 2001 | 2 213 | census |
| 2012 | 6 261 | census |
The municipality has an area of 16 km² and had a population density of 391 inhabitants / km² at the 2012 census .
The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.3 years, and infant mortality rose from 6.6 percent (1992) to 7.6 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 59.0 percent, namely 78.3 percent for men and 44.3 percent for women (2001) .
54.5 percent of the population speak Spanish , 98.7 percent speak Aymara , and 0.2 percent speak Quechua . (2001)
64.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 87.1 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
59.6 percent of households own a radio, 14.2 percent a television, 9.9 percent a bicycle, 0.1 percent a motorcycle, 1.4 percent a car, 0.3 percent a refrigerator, and 0.4 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 | MSM | MAS-IPSP | ASP | ||
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| 936 | 868 | 716 | 359 | 260 | 97 | ||
| 92.7% | 82.5% | 50.1% | 36.3% | 13.5% |
structure
The municipality consists of only one canton ( cantón ), the canton of Tito Yupanqui . This in turn includes the following sub-cantons:
- Sub-canton Alto Sihualaya - 525 inhabitants ( 2001: 378 inhabitants )
- Sub-canton Chichilaya - 347 inhabitants ( 2001: 230 inhabitants )
- Sub-canton Chiquipata - 626 inhabitants ( 2001: 233 inhabitants )
- Sub-canton Coaquipa - 517 inhabitants ( 2001: 225 inhabitants )
- Sub-canton Huatapampa - 576 inhabitants ( 2001: 204 inhabitants )
- Sub-canton Alto Parqui Pujio - 211 inhabitants ( 2001: 180 inhabitants )
- Sub-canton Tito Yupanqui - 3,459 inhabitants ( 2001: 773 inhabitants )
Localities in the municipality of Tito Yupanqui
- Canton of Tito Yupanqui
- Tito Yupanqui 3459 pop - Alto Sihualaya 525 pop - Coaquipa 517 pop
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 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.
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Tito Yupanqui - General Maps No. 21703
- Municipio Tito Yupanqui - detailed map and population data (PDF; 288 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )