Mojinete Municipality

The municipality Mojinete is a district in the Potosí Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Mojinete is the smallest of the three Municipalities in the province Sur Lípez. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of San Pablo de Lípez, in the west and south by the municipality of San Antonio de Esmoruco, on the southeast by the Republic of Argentina, and on the northeast by the province Sur chichas. It stretches for about 25 per km in a north-south and east-west direction.

The central location of the municipality is the village with 271 inhabitants Mojinete (2001) in the northeastern corner of the county.

Geography

The municipality Mojinete located in the southern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano. The climate is characterized because of the internal situation in cool, dry and by a typical diurnal climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are generally significantly greater than the seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature of the region is 11 ° C and varies only slightly between good 5 ° C in June / July and a good 14 ° C from November to March (see climate chart Villazón ). The annual rainfall is only 350 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October month precipitation less than 10 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an 70-90 mm ​​month precipitation.

Population

The population of the municipality Mojinete has not changed significantly in the past two decades:

The population density of the municipality at the last census in 2001 was 1.9 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population is 0 percent. The proportion of under-15s in the population is 44.2 percent, the share of women is 57 percent.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 79 percent, and that 98 percent of men and 62 percent in women. The most important idiom with a share of 97 percent is Quechua, 81 percent of the population speaks Spanish. 86 percent of the population is Catholic, 13 percent Protestant.

The life expectancy of newborns is 52 years. 98.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 82 percent have no sanitary facilities.

Policy

Structure

The municipality is divided into the following cantons ( cantones ):

  • Canton Bonete Palca - one community - 45 inhabitants - Central Location: Bonete Palca
  • Canton of Casa Grande - 4 municipalities - 145 inhabitants - Central Location: Casa Grande
  • Canton of La Cienega - 5 municipalities - 86 inhabitants - Central Location: La Cienega
  • Canton Mojinete - 5 municipalities - 376 inhabitants - Central Location: Mojinete
  • Canton Pueblo Viejo - one community - 64 inhabitants - Central Location: Pueblo Viejo
Departamento San Antonio de Esmoruco Municipality Sud Chichas Province Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Cantons of Bolivia Mojinete Canton
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