Mizque Municipality
The municipality Mizque is a district in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Mizque is one of three Municipalities of the province Mizque. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of Alalay, on the west by the municipality of Vila Vila, in the southwest and south by the department of Potosí, to the east by the province Campero, and in the north east and north by the province of Carrasco.
The central location of the municipality is Mizque with 2,677 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the eastern part of the municipality.
Geography
Mizque lies between the mountain ranges of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central. The climate is characterized by year-round spring-like temperatures and low rainfall.
The average annual temperature of the region is about 20 ° C (see climate chart ) and an annual rainfall of 550 mm. The warmest month is November with an average of just over 22 ° C, coldest months are June and July with about 17 ° C. From April to October, dry season with rainfall less than 25 mm, wettest months in the long-term average, the months of December to February, with more than 100 mm.
Population
The population of the municipality Mizque has risen in the past two decades by about two-thirds:
The population density of the municipality at the last census in 2001 was 14.3 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population is 10.0 percent. The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 52.2 years.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 57.5 percent, and 71.9 percent, although in men and 43.8 percent for women ( 2001).
Policy
Structure
The municipality Mizque is divided into the following six cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Cauta
- Cantón Mizque
- Cantón Molinero
- Cantón Taboada
- Cantón Tin Tin
- Cantón Vicho Vicho