Municipio Villa Charcas

Municipio Villa Charcas
Basic data
Residents (state)	14,496 pop. (2012 census)
Post Code	01-0704
Telephone code	(+591)
height	2000 m
Coordinates	20 ° 35 ′ S , 64 ° 50 ′ W Coordinates: 20 ° 35 ′ S , 64 ° 50 ′ W
	Municipio Villa Charcas
	Municipio Villa Charcas
politics
Department	Chuquisaca
province	Nor Cinti Province
Central place	Villa Charcas
climate
	; Culpina climate diagram

The Municipio Villa Charcas is a district in the Chuquisaca Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Villa Charcas is one of four municipalities in the province of Nor Cinti and includes its central area. It borders the Municipio San Lucas to the north, the Municipio Camargo to the west , and the Municipio Incahuasi to the south and southeast .

The municipality extends between about 20 ° 24 'and 20 ° 47' south latitude and 64 ° 39 'and 65 ° 01' west longitude, its expansion from west to east and from north to south is up to 25 kilometers.

The municipality was created on December 23, 2009 by law 4127 by splitting off the northwestern part of the municipality Incahuasi. It includes 61 localidades .

geography

The Municipio Villa Charcas is located on the southern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central , between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature in the district is around 14 ° C (see Culpina climate diagram), the monthly average values fluctuate between almost 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 430 mm and shows seven arid months from April to October with monthly values below 20 mm, notable monthly precipitation falls in the remaining five months with values up to almost 100 mm.

population

The population of the region has risen by almost a third in the past two decades and amounted to 14,496 inhabitants in the 2012 census.

The population density of the Municipio Incahuasi was in the last census of 2001 (before the division) 12.7 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among the over 6-year-olds had increased from 53.6 percent (1992) to 66.3 percent (2001) . The life expectancy of the newborns was 55.1 years, the infant mortality had fallen from 10.7 percent (1992) to 10.1 percent in 2001.

68.0 percent of the population of the former Incahuasi municipality speak Spanish , 80.9 percent speak Quechua , and 0.1 percent speak Aymara . (2001)

88.2 percent of the population of the former Municipio Incahuasi have no access to electricity , 81.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

53.1 percent of the households in the former Incahuasi municipality own a radio, 10.2 percent a television, 40.1 percent a bicycle, 0.7 percent a motorcycle, 3.8 percent a car, 1.0 percent a refrigerator, and 0.4 percent a phone. (2001)