Guanay Municipality
The municipality Guanay is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Guanay is one of eight Municipalities of the province Larecaja and lies in the eastern part of the province. It is bordered to the north by the Province Franz Tamayo, on the northwest by the municipality of Mapiri, on the west by the municipality of Tipuani and the municipality of Sorata, in the southwest of the province Omasuyos, to the south by the province of Los Andes, in the southeast of the province Murillo, to the east by the province Caranavi, and on the northeast by the municipality of Teoponte.
The municipality measures from north to south, up to 90 km, from west to east up to 75 km. The municipality has 59 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is the town with 3,890 inhabitants Guanay ( 2001 census ) in the central part of the district, the second largest town is Carura with 934 inhabitants.
Geography
The municipality Guanay located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in Bolivia's Yungas lowlands in the catchment area of the Río Beni, one of the major rivers of the Amazon lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C (see climate chart ) and the annual rainfall is about 1600 mm. The region has no distinct temperature pattern on the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 23 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from November to January, and the day and night temperatures have only small fluctuations. The monthly rainfall range from less than 50 mm during the months of June and July, and more than 200 mm from December to February.
Population
The population of the municipality Guanay has declined in the past two decades by about 15 percent:
The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 1.7 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 59.0 years, the infant mortality rate was 9.0 per cent ( 1992) declined to 7.8 percent in 2001, the literacy rate for those over 6 years was 88.6 percent.
93.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 32.0 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 14.7 percent. (2001)
54.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 43.3 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
70.5 percent of the 2,828 households have a radio, 26.1 percent have a television, 13.1 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.0 percent, 2.5 percent own a car, 13.6 percent have a refrigerator, 1.1 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following six cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Guanay - 21 municipalities - 6,881 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Mariapu - 8 municipalities - 667 inhabitants
- Cantón visit virgin Vilaque - one community - 111 inhabitants
- Cantón San Juan de Challana - 10 municipalities - 1,453 inhabitants
- Cantón Santa Rosa de Challana - 17 municipalities - 2,289 inhabitants
- Cantón Sapucuni - 2 municipalities - 27 inhabitants