Colquiri Municipality

The municipality Colquiri is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Colquiri is one of six Municipalities of the province Inquisivi and is located in the southwestern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of Ichoca, in the west and south by the Departamento Oruro, on the east by the department of Cochabamba, and on the northeast by the municipality of Inquisivi.

The municipality has 209 localities ( Localidades ), the administrative center of the municipality is Colquiri with 4,004 inhabitants in the western part of the municipality. (2001)

Geography

The municipality Colquiri is on an average height of 4000 m and ranges from the peaks of the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz in the east adjoining valleys, between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The mean average temperature of the high valleys located at 7 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly value vary only slightly between 3 ° C in June and July and 9 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is 500 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 100 to 120 mm in January and February.

In the tin deposits of Colquiri is, inter alia, the rare colquiriite found a fluoride mineral which occurs in association with sphalerite and pyrite.

Population

The population of the municipality Colquiri has increased by about 20 percent over the past two decades:

The municipality had at the last census of 2001 a population density of 17.5 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 55.1 years, the infant mortality rate was 9.7 per cent ( 1992) to 9.4 percent in 2001, almost unchanged remained.

The literacy rate for those over 15 years is 73.2 percent, and 86.0 percent, although in men and 59.4 percent for women ( 2001).

72.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 82.9 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 3.3 percent. (2001)

74.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 87.3 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

73.3 percent of the total of 4,953 households have a radio, 18.3 percent have a television, 19.9 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 4.0 percent, 1.7 percent, a car, a refrigerator, 3.4 percent and 0.7 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality is divided into the following eight cantons ( cantones ):

  • Cantón Caluyo - 1,940 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Colquiri - 5,495 inhabitants
  • Cantón Coriri - 1,606 inhabitants
  • Cantón Huayllamarca - 1,036 inhabitants
  • Cantón Lanza - 3,688 inhabitants
  • Cantón Pauca - 2,147 inhabitants
  • Cantón Villa Hancacota - 1,077 inhabitants
  • Cantón Uyuni - 1,690 inhabitants
La Paz Department (Bolivia) Inquisivi Province Municipios of Bolivia Cochabamba Department Amazon River Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement Cantons of Bolivia
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