Manco Kapac Province

Manco Kapac Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz
Seat	Copacabana
surface	367 km²
Residents	27,154 (2012)
density	74 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L

Coordinates: 16 ° 7 ′  S , 69 ° 2 ′  W

Panorama of Copacabana

Manco Kapac is the smallest of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian department of La Paz and is located in the western part of the department. The province bears its current name after the mythological first Inca king, Manco Cápac .

location

The province is located in the central part of the Bolivian Altiplano on the Copacabana Peninsula in Lake Titicaca , which separates Lago Chucuito (" Big Lake ") in the northwest from Wiñaymarka (" Small Lake ") in the southeast. The two parts of Lake Titicaca are connected by the Strait of Tiquina , which crosses the province. In the southwest of the peninsula the province shares a border with the Republic of Peru , in the southeast across the Strait of Tiquina Manco Kapac borders on the province of Omasuyos .

The province includes the islands of Isla del Sol and Isla de la Luna in the northwest and the island of Isla Taquiri in the southeast. The province extends between about 15 ° 53 'and 16 ° 21' south latitude and 68 ° 42 'and 69 ° 17' west longitude, it measures at the widest point from northeast to southwest 16 kilometers, in length from northwest to southeast 50 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Manco Kapac has increased by about a third over the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	20 554	census
2001	22 892	census
2012	27 154	census

The province's literacy rate is 78.7 percent, 91.1 percent for men and 67.4 percent for women.

The infant mortality rate is 7.3 percent (1992) to 6.6 percent (2001) declined.

76.3 percent of the population speak Spanish , 89.4 percent speak Aymara , and 0.4 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

46.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 71.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

70.3 percent of households have a radio, 24.3 percent a television, 18.0 percent a bicycle, 0.4 percent a motorcycle, 2.2 percent a car, 2.3 percent a refrigerator, and 4.1 percent a telephone. (2001)

79.6 percent of the population are Catholic , 16.4 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Manco Kapac was divided into the following three counties ( Bolivian : Municipios ) at the 2012 census :

• 02-1701 Municipio Copacabana - 14,931 inhabitants
• 02-1702 Municipio San Pedro de Tiquina - 5,962 inhabitants
• 02-1703 Municipio Tito Yupanqui - 6,261 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Manco Kapac

• Municipio Copacabana
  • Copacabana pop 5579 - Locka pop 892 - Cha'lla pop 871 - Yumani pop 746 - Huacuyo pop 700 - Khasani pop 374 - Yampupata pop 279 - Challapampa pop 177 - Zampaya pop 141

• Municipio of San Pedro de Tiquina
  • San Pablo de Tiquina 981 pop - San Pedro de Tiquina 694 pop - Villa Amacari 509 pop

• Municipio Tito Yupanqui
  • Tito Yupanqui 3459 pop - Alto Sihualaya 525 pop - Coaquipa 517 pop

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 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. 

Web links

• Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
• La Paz Department - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF 11.91 MB)
• Municipio Copacabana - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) (Spanish)
• Municipio San Pedro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 316 kB) (Spanish)
• Municipio Tito Yupanqui - detailed map and population data (PDF; 288 kB) (Spanish)