Pazña Municipality

The municipality Pazña is a district in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Pazña is one of three Municipalities in the province Poopó. It is bordered to the north by the municipality and the province Poopó Cercado, on the west by the province Saucarí, to the south by the province and the province of Sud Carangas Eduardo Avaroa, and to the east and northeast by the municipality of Antequera.

The central location of the municipality is Pazña with 1,090 inhabitants ( 2001) in the central part of the district on the eastern edge of the Poopó level.

Geography

The municipality Pazña located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Azanaques, a section of the Cordillera Central. The mean annual temperature of the region is about 9 ° C (see climate chart Challapata ), the annual precipitation is 330 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November / December. The monthly rainfall less than 15 mm in the months of April to October and fall only from December to March with significant levels of 60 to 80 mm.

Population

The population of the municipality Pazña has declined in the past two decades to less than half:

The population density of the municipality is 5.1 inhabitants / km ² at the 2001 census, the proportion of the urban population is 0 percent. The life expectancy of newborns is 59.1 years.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 82 percent, and that 95 percent of men and 71 percent in women.

Policy

Cañadón Peñas

After the decline of the mining industry of the region's crop production is the only source of income for the impoverished population, the climatic conditions of the valley a difficult situation: During the day, there is scorching heat, at night the frost, so that at the same time extreme drought to drain the fields and the crops fail sparse.

Cañadón Peñas ( Cañadón = field in the valley that is flooded with rain; peña = Rock Mountain ) is the name for the merger of the two cantons Pazña and Antequera, since the middle of the first decade of the new century as one of fifteen " Millennium Villages " are supported by the German Welthungerhilfe. In joint workshops, the inhabitants of Antequera Valley have set up together with experts Welthungerhilfe a five-year plan, which wants to implement improvements in four areas: nutrition, economy, education, the involvement of women. Welthungerhilfe supports 13,000 rural inhabitants of the region in improving the livestock, the construction of small producers, the establishment of schools, meals included.

Structure

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

  • Canton Avicaya
  • Canton Pazña
  • Canton Peñas
  • Canton Totoral
  • Canton Urmiri
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