Desaguadero Municipality
The municipality Desaguadero is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Desaguadero is one of seven Municipalities of the province Ingavi and located in the western part of the province. It is bordered to the north by Lake Titicaca, on the west by the Republic of Peru, to the southwest by the municipality of San Andrés de Machaca, on the southeast by the municipality of Jesús de Machaca, and on the east by the municipality of Guaqui.
The municipality has 18 localities ( Localidades ), the administrative center of the municipality is the town of Desaguadero country with 2,219 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the northwestern part of the municipality.
Geography
The municipality Desaguadero located on the southwestern edge of Lake Titicaca between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano and was hit in the past three millennia of significant water-level fluctuations of the lake.
The climate is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses. The annual average temperature is close to 8 ° C, the monthly values vary only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C from November to March. The mean annual precipitation is about 670 mm (see climate chart ) and falls mainly in the months of December to March, more than 100 mm per month, from May to August, there is a dry season with monthly rainfall less than 15 mm.
Population
The population of the municipality of Desaguadero has increased by about 30 percent over the past two decades:
The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 55 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns was 60.1 years, and the infant mortality rate was 8.7 per cent (1992 ) declined to 7.3 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 77.5 percent, and 93.0 percent, although in men and 63.2 percent for women ( 2001).
78.8 percent of the population speak Spanish, 84.8 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.6 percent. (2001)
36.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 72.9 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
74.9 percent of the total of 1,444 households have a radio, 31.3 percent have a television, 42.0 percent, bicycle, motorcycle 0.4 percent, 5.3 percent, a car, a refrigerator 2.4 percent and 4.3 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following two cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Desaguadero - 4,194 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón San Juan de Huancollo - 787 inhabitants