San Pablo de Lípez Municipality

The municipality of San Pablo de Lípez is a district in the Potosí Department in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

San Pablo de Lípez is one of the three Municipalities in the province Sur Lípez. It is bordered to the north by the province of Nor Lípez, in the northwest of the province Enrique Baldivieso, to the west and south by the Republic of Chile, to the southeast by the Republic of Argentina, on the east by the municipality of San Antonio de Esmoruco, and on the northeast by the municipality of Mojinete and to the Province of Sur chichas. It extends over 230 km from northeast to southwest, its width varies 25-110 kilometers. Capital of the municipality is the eponymous village of San Pablo de Lípez.

Geography

San Pablo de Lípez located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Lípez in the east. The region's climate is arid and has a time of day climate.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 5.5 ° C (see climate chart ), with a monthly average value of just above 0 ° C in July and 8 ° C from December to February. The annual rainfall is low 170 mm, with the months of April through October, virtually rainless. Only from November to March fall precipitation, with a maximum of 45 mm month precipitation in January.

Population

The population of the county has risen only marginally over the past two decades:

The population density of the municipality at the 2001 census was 0.2 inhabitants / km ². The proportion of urban population is 0 percent, the proportion of under-15s in the population is 41.3 percent.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 81 percent, and that 94 percent of men and 68 percent in women. The most important idiom with a share of 87 percent Spanish, 80 percent of the population speak Quechua. 83 percent of the population is Catholic, 10 percent Protestant.

The life expectancy of newborns is 53 years. 99.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 92 percent have no sanitary facilities.

Policy

Structure

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

• Canton Quetena Grande - 621 inhabitants ( 2001) ( key location: Quetena Grande)
• Canton of San Antonio de Lípez - 505 inhabitants (Central Location: San Antonio de Lípez )
• Canton of San Pablo de Lípez - 1,397 inhabitants (Central Location: San Pablo de Lípez )