Municipio Villa Serrano
| Municipio Villa Serrano | |||
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| Population (state) - population density |
11,159 inhabitants (2012 census) 6 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 01-0801 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 1,724 km² | ||
| height | 2000 m | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 55 ′ S , 64 ° 20 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Belisario Boeto Province | ||
| Central place | Villa Serrano | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Villa Serrano |
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The Municipio Villa Serrano is a district in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of Villa Serrano is the only municipality in the province of Belisario Boeto . It borders the province of Jaime Zudáñez to the northwest , the province of Tomina to the southwest and south , the department of Santa Cruz to the east , and the department of Cochabamba to the north .
The municipality extends approximately between 18 ° 38 'and 19 ° 11' south latitude and 64 ° 02 'and 64 ° 30' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 30 to 40 kilometers, from north to south 65 kilometers.
The municipality comprises 109 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the town of Villa Serrano with 3,298 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southwestern part of the district.
geography
The Municipio Villa Serrano is located in the transition area between the Cordillera Central in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The region's climate is spring-like all year round.
The annual average temperature is 17 ° C (see climate diagram Villa Serrano), the monthly values fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation has a value of 600 to 700 mm, with a dry season from May to September and monthly values of mostly well below 25 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with maximum values of 100 to 130 mm.
population
The number of inhabitants of the municipality has decreased by about an eighth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 12 617 | census |
| 2001 | 12 277 | census |
| 2012 | 11 159 | census |
The population density at the last census of 2012 was 6.5 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among those over 15 years of age was 65.8 percent in 2001. The life expectancy of newborns was 59.5 years, and infant mortality fell from 11.2 percent (1992) to 8.3 percent in 2001.
91.3 percent of the population speak Spanish , 29.1 percent speak Quechua , and 0.1 percent speak Aymara . (2001)
77.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 69.8 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .
70.8 percent of 2,835 households have a radio, 16.2 percent a television, 15.4 percent a bicycle, 1.9 percent a motorcycle, 2.5 percent a car, 8.0 percent a refrigerator, and 0.2 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 | MMP | ||
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| 5,480 | 4,696 | 3,646 | 2,624 | 1,022 | ||
| 85.7% | 77.6% | 72.0% | 28.0% |
structure
The municipality of Villa Serrano was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following three cantons ( cantones ):
- 01-0801-1 Canton of Villa Serrano - 35 municipalities - 6,299 inhabitants ( 2001: 5,639 inhabitants )
- 01-0801-2 Canton of Mendoza - 30 municipalities - 3,621 inhabitants ( 2001: 4,126 inhabitants )
- 01-0801-3 Canton Urriolagoitia - 17 municipalities - 1,239 inhabitants ( 2001: 2,512 inhabitants )
Localities in the municipality of Villa Serrano
- Canton of Villa Serrano
- Villa Serrano 3298 pop - Nuevo Mundo 458 pop
- Canton of Mendoza
- Mendoza 605 pop.
- Urriolagoitia Canton
- Urriolagoitia 145 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 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
- Municipio Villa Serrano - General Maps No. 10801
- Municipio Villa Serrano - detailed map and population data (PDF; 775 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )