Mecapaca Municipality
The municipality Mecapaca is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Mecapaca is one of five Municipalities of the province of Murillo and lies in the southern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of Achocalla, on the southwest by the province of flavor, and on the south by the province Loayza, on the east by the municipality of Palca, and to the north by the municipality of La Paz
The municipality has 59 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Mecapaca with 251 inhabitants in the northwestern part of the municipality. Most populous towns in the municipality are Santiago de collana with 868 inhabitants, El Palomar with 843 inhabitants and Yupampa with 747 inhabitants. (2001)
Geography
The municipality is situated on the edge of the Mecapaca Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3700 m on the western edge of the Andes mountain range, the Cordillera Central and flows through it from northwest to southeast of the Río de la Paz. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day are greater than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the municipality is 16 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 14 ° C in June / July and about 18 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 550 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm from May to August and 120 mm in January.
Population
The population of the municipality Mecapaca has increased by about 40 % over the past two decades:
The municipality had at the last census a population density of 23.3 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was at 60.0 years, the infant mortality rate of 7.9 per cent ( 1992) declined to 7.3 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 79.6 percent, and 88.4 percent, although in men and 70.5 percent for women ( 2001).
81.5 percent of the population speak Spanish, 83.0 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.5 percent. (2001)
44.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 72.0 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
72.7 percent of the 2,942 households have a radio, 39.3 percent have a television, 16.8 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.0 percent, 13.4 percent own a car, a refrigerator 11.4 percent, 7.1 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into three cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Chanka - 2,712 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Mecapaca - 7,189 inhabitants
- Cantón Santiago de collana - 1,881 inhabitants