San Andrés de Machaca Municipality
The municipality of San Andrés de Machaca is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality of San Andrés de Machaca is one of seven Municipalities of the province Ingavi and is located in the southwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the Republic of Peru, on the south by the province of José Manuel Pando, in the southeast of the province Pacajes, and on the northeast by the municipality of Jesús de Machaca.
The municipality has 94 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality of San Andrés de Machaca is with 191 inhabitants in the south-eastern part of the county. The largest town in the municipality is corpa with 418 inhabitants. (2001)
Geography
The municipality of San Andrés de Machaca is located at an average altitude of 3900 m south of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.
The mean annual temperature of the region lies at 8-9 ° 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 San Andrés de Machaca has increased by about 25 % over the past two decades:
The municipality had at the 2001 census, a population density of 4.2 inhabitants / km ². 67.2 percent of the population speak Spanish, 94.4 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)
Social structures
The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was at about 62 years, the infant mortality rate of 6.7 per cent ( 1992) declined to 6.1 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate in the over 15 year olds is 83.0 percent, and 94.0 percent, although in men and 72.0 percent for women ( 2001).
95.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 58.7 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
57.2 percent of the total 2,166 households owned a radio, a television 1.1 percent, 51.4 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 2.5 percent, 0.8 percent own a car, a refrigerator 0.0 percent and 0.1 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality has an area of 1,502 km ² and is divided into the following nine cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Chuncharcota de Machaca - 400 inhabitants (2001)
- Cantón Conchacollo de Machaca - 915 inhabitants
- Cantón Laquinamaya - 1,089 inhabitants
- Cantón Mauri - 616 inhabitants
- Cantón Nazacara - 494 inhabitants
- Cantón San Andrés de Machaca - 1,344 inhabitants
- Cantón Sombra Pata - 262 inhabitants
- Cantón Villa Artasivi de Machaca - 873 inhabitants
- Cantón Villa Pusuma Alto de Machaca - 317 inhabitants