Municipio of Yamparáez

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Municipio of Yamparáez
Basic data

Population (state)
- population density
10,111 inhabitants (2012 census)
16 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 01-0602
Telephone code (+591)
surface 613 km²
height 2900  m
Coordinates 19 ° 14 ′  S , 65 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 14 ′  S , 65 ° 4 ′  W
Municipio Yamparáez (Bolivia)
Municipio of Yamparáez
Municipio of Yamparáez
politics

Department Chuquisaca
province Yamparáez Province
Central place Yamparáez
climate
Climate diagram Tarabuco
Climate diagram Tarabuco

The municipality of Yamparáez is a district in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of Yamparáez is one of two municipalities in the province of Yamparáez and includes its southwestern area. It borders the province of Oropeza to the north and west , the Department of Potosí to the south , and the municipality of Tarabuco to the east .

The municipality extends between about 19 ° 03 'and 19 ° 23' south latitude and 64 ° 56 'and 65 ° 11' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 25 kilometers, from north to south up to 35 kilometers .

The municipality comprises 54 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the village Yamparáez with 1,124 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the north-western part of the district.

The municipality benefits from its location near the city of Sucre , including the Sucre Airport .

geography

The municipality of Yamparáez is located in the ridge 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 Tarabuco is around 9 ° C (see Tarabuco climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 6 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 600 mm and has four arid months from May to August with monthly values ​​below 10 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 100 and 125 mm.

population

The population of the Municipio Yamparáez has decreased by about a sixth in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 11 656 census
2001 10 013 census
2012 10 111 census

The population density in the last census of 2012 was 16.5 inhabitants / km², the literacy rate among those over 6 years of age had increased from 43.5 percent (1992) to 55.9 percent. The life expectancy of newborns was 61.6 years, and infant mortality had fallen from 10.0 percent (1992) to 7.4 percent in 2001.

47.3 percent of the population speak Spanish , 98.8 percent speak Quechua , and 0.0 percent speak Aymara . (2001)

61.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 80.3 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

79.9 percent of 2,432 households own a radio, 10.2 percent a television, 27.6 percent a bicycle, 0.2 percent a motorcycle, 2.3 percent a car, 3.4 percent a refrigerator, and 0.4 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 UCPY
4,260   3,753 2,846   2,037 809
  88.1% 75.8%   71.6% 28.4%

structure

The municipality Yamparáez included in the last census of 2012, the following two cantons ( cantones ):

  • 01-0602-1 Canton Yamparáez - 35 Vicecantones - 45 municipalities - 8,335 inhabitants ( 2001: 8,017 inhabitants )
  • 01-0602-2 Canton Sotomayor - 8 Vicecantones - 9 municipalities - 1,776 inhabitants ( 2001: 1,996 inhabitants )

Localities in the municipality of Yamparáez

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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