Mapiri Municipality
The municipality Mapiri is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Mapiri is one of eight Municipalities of the province Larecaja and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the north by the Province Franz Tamayo, in the northwest of the province of Bautista Saavedra, on the west by the municipality of Tacacoma, in the southwest and south by the municipality of Sorata, on the southeast by the municipality of Tipuani, and on the east by the municipality of Guanay.
The municipality Mapiri measures 60 kilometers from north to south, from west to east up to 40 kilometers. The municipality comprises 45 municipalities ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is the town with 2,561 inhabitants Mapiri ( 2001 census ) in the central part of the county.
Geography
The municipality Mapiri located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in the lowlands of the Río Beni, one of the major rivers of the Amazon lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is over 23 ° C (see climate chart Mapiri ), the annual precipitation is just under 1400 mm. The region has a slightly pronounced temperature profile on the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 21 ° C in June and July and nearly 28 ° C in November and December, and the day and night temperatures have only small fluctuations. The monthly rainfall range from less than 50 mm in the months of June and July and over 200 mm in December.
Population
The population of the municipality Mapiri has not changed significantly in the past two decades:
The infant mortality rate in the municipality is of 8.5 percent ( 1992) declined to 7.6 percent in 2001, the literacy rate for those over 6 years was 88.3 percent in 2001.
95.5 percent of the population speak Spanish, 43.5 percent speak Quechua, Aymara and 18.5 percent. (2001)
47.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 74.7 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
65.7 percent of the 2,284 households have a radio, 32.9 percent have a television, 11.7 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 3.4 percent, 2.1 percent, a car, a refrigerator 17.1 percent, 0.6 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following two cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Mapiri - 42 communities - 8,988 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Sarampiuni - 3 municipalities - 645 inhabitants