Catacora Municipality
The municipality Catacora is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Catacora has a size of 610 km ² and is one of two Municipalities of the province of José Manuel Pando and is located in the southwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the Republic of Peru and in the southeast, east and northeast by the municipality of Santiago de Machaca.
The municipality has 43 localities ( Localidades ), the administrative center of the municipality is Catacora with 529 inhabitants in the northern part of the municipality. (2001)
Geography
The municipality Catacora is on an average height of 4500 m southwest 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 municipality has a semi-arid climate Catacora because not enough rainfall for crop growth during the course of more than six months.
The mean annual temperature of Catacora is about 8 ° C (see climate chart Charaña ) and the annual rainfall is only 300 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 5 ° C from June to July and 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of May to October and about 50 mm from December to March.
Population
The population of the municipality Catacora has risen in the past two decades fourfold:
The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 3.1 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 65.1 years, the infant mortality rate was 9.6 per cent ( 1992) declined to 5.2 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 91.5 percent, and 95.3 percent, although in men and 87.7 percent for women ( 2001).
83.6 percent of the population speak Spanish, 91.4 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.2 percent. (2001)
96.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 57.4 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
75.5 percent of the total of 481 households have a radio, a television 0.4 percent, 53.6 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 4.4 percent, 1.7 percent, a car, a refrigerator 0.2 percent and 0.4 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following four cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Catacora - 809 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Pairumani Grande - 142 inhabitants
- Cantón Pojo Pajchiri - 561 inhabitants
- Cantón Tola Khollu - 223 inhabitants