Puerto Pérez Municipality

The municipality of Puerto Pérez is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality of Puerto Pérez is one of four Municipalities of the province of Los Andes and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the northwest by Lake Titicaca, in the west and south by the municipality of Pucarani, and on the east by the municipality of Batallas.

The municipality has 44 localities ( Localidades ), the administrative seat of the municipality of Puerto Pérez is with 515 inhabitants in the northern part of the municipality. (2001)

Geography

The municipality of Puerto Pérez is on an average height of 3850 m southeast of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.

The mean annual temperature of the region is located at 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 mm (see climate chart El Alto). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality of Puerto Pérez has increased by about 30 percent over the past two decades:

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 56.1 years, the infant mortality rate of 7.6 per cent ( 1992) rose to 9.0 percent in 2001. The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 62.6 inhabitants / km ².

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 65.8 percent, and 82.5 percent, although in men and 50.4 percent for women ( 2001).

59.7 percent of the population speak Spanish, 97.8 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)

63.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 76.7 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

65.4 percent of the total of 2,451 households have a radio, 11.5 percent have a television, 29.7 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.2 percent, 0.7 percent own a car, a refrigerator 0.2 percent and 0.7 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Aygachi
  • Cantón Cascachi
  • Cantón Puerto Pérez
  • Cantón Suriqui
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Los Andes Province (Bolivia) Municipios of Bolivia Pucarani Municipality Cordillera Occidental (Bolivia) Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Social Alliance Without Fear Movement Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Cantons of Bolivia
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