Caquiaviri Municipality
The municipality Caquiaviri is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Caquiaviri is one of eight Municipalities of the province Pacajes and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the north and west by the province Ingavi and to the Municipio de Nazacara Pacajes, on the southwest by the municipality of Charaña, to the south by the municipality of Calacoto, on the southeast by the municipality of Coro Coro, and on the east by the municipality of Comanche.
The municipality covers 156 localities ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is Caquiaviri with 388 inhabitants in the north-eastern part of the municipality, the largest town is Achiri with 646 inhabitants. (2001)
Geography
The municipality Caquiaviri is on an average height of 3900 m south of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.
The mean annual temperature of the region is located at 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500 mm (see climate chart Nazacara ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 5 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to August and from 100 to 125 mm in January and February.
Population
The population of the municipality Caquiaviri has increased by about a third in the past two decades:
The municipality had at the last census in 2001, a population density of 7.6 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 63.5 years, the infant mortality rate was 7.3 percent (1992 ) to 5.8 percent in 2001 decreased.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 82.5 percent, and 94.6 percent, although in men and 70.7 percent for women ( 2001).
75.3 percent of the population speak Spanish, 95.7 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)
91.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 61.9 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
52.7 percent of the total 4,264 households owned a radio, a television 1.5 percent, 35.5 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.6 percent, 0.8 percent own a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent and 0.1 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following eleven cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Achiri - 2,776 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Antaquira - 719 inhabitants
- Cantón Caquiaviri - 2,643 inhabitants
- Cantón Chojñapampa de Vichaya - 171 inhabitants
- Cantón Jihuacuta - 1,370 inhabitants
- Cantón Kasillunca - 1,074 inhabitants
- Cantón Laura Lloko Lloko - 770 inhabitants
- Cantón Tincachi - 244 inhabitants
- Cantón Vichaya - 561 inhabitants
- Cantón Villa Anta - 1,082 inhabitants
- Cantón Choco Villa Rosi - 501 inhabitants