Sica Sica Municipality
The municipality Sica Sica is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Sica Sica is one of seven Municipalities of the province of flavor and is located in the southeastern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of Patacamaya, on the west by the municipality of Umala, to the south by the province Gualberto Villarroel, in the southeast on the department of Oruro and the east and north of the province Loayza.
The municipality has 118 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Sica Sica with 3,831 inhabitants in the northwestern part of the municipality. Larger towns in the municipality are still Lahuachaca with 2,986 inhabitants and Cala Cala with 1,678 inhabitants in 2001.
Geography
The municipality Sica Sica is 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 located at 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 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 municipality has an area of 1,713 km ² and pointed at the 2001 census recorded a population density of 15.7 inhabitants / km ².
The population of the municipality of Sica Sica has nearly doubled in the past two decades:
The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.9 years, the infant mortality rate is 11.0 per cent ( 1992) declined to 7.4 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 83.2 percent, and 92.8 percent, although in men and 73.8 percent for women ( 2001).
79.6 percent of the population speak Spanish, 90.3 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.4 percent. (2001)
74.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 79.1 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
71.9 percent of households have a radio, 14.4 percent have a television, 43.4 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.0 percent, 4.6 percent, a car, a refrigerator 0.5 percent, and 1.7 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following eleven cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Ayamaya - 803 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Chijmuni - 848 inhabitants
- Cantón Colpapucho Belen - 2,469 inhabitants
- Cantón German Busch - 6,271 inhabitants
- Cantón Kajani - 981 inhabitants
- Cantón Machacamarca - 1,372 inhabitants
- Cantón Manuel Isidoro Belzu - 2,238 inhabitants
- Cantón Panduro - 997 inhabitants
- Cantón Pujravi - 4,364 inhabitants
- Sica Sica cantón - 5,351 inhabitants
- Cantón Chuakhollu Villa Grande - 1,124 inhabitants