Patacamaya Municipality
The municipality Patacamaya is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Patacamaya is one of seven Municipalities of the province of flavor and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the province Pacajes, on the southwest by the municipality of Umala, on the southeast by the municipality of Sica Sica, on the east by the province Loayza, and to the north by the municipality of Ayo Ayo.
The municipality has 75 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Patacamaya with 8,414 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality. The only other large town in the municipality of Villa is still Patarani with 1,024 inhabitants. (2001)
Geography
The municipality Patacamaya located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3800 m, between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The mean average temperature of the municipality is good 7 ° C (see climate chart ), the annual precipitation is about 450 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the Between May and August and 100 mm in January.
Population
The population of the municipality Patacamaya has increased by about 60 percent over the past two decades:
The population density in the municipality was 14.9 inhabitants / km ² at the last census in 2001. Life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 62.1 years, the infant mortality rate of 8.1 per cent ( 1992) to 6.4 percent in 2001 sunk.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 88.8 percent, and 95.4 percent, although in men and 82.1 percent for women ( 2001).
83.0 percent of the population speak Spanish, 83.2 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.9 percent. (2001)
58.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 63.4 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
72.2 percent of households have a radio, 25.5 percent have a television, 47.3 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.8 percent, 7.7 percent, a car, a refrigerator 2.0 percent, 4.9 percent phone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into twelve cantons ( cantones ):
- Canton Chacoma - 572 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Canton Chairumani - 929 inhabitants
- Canton Chiaraque - 1,569 inhabitants
- Canton Colchani - 1,329 inhabitants
- Canton Culta Arajllanga - 1,228 inhabitants
- Canton Iquiaca de Umala - population 460
- Canton Patacamaya - 10,219 inhabitants
- Canton Pusuta - 114 inhabitants
- Canton of San Martin de Iquiaca - 875 inhabitants
- Canton Villa Concepcion de Belen - 589 inhabitants
- Canton Villa Patarani - 1,024 inhabitants
- Canton Viscachani - 1,131 inhabitants