Uncía Municipality

The municipality Uncía is a district in the Potosí Department in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Uncía is one of four (up to June 2009: three) Municipalities in the province of Rafael Bustillo and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Llallagua, on the northeast by the municipality of Chayanta, on the east by the municipality of Chuquihuta, and to the south and west by the Oruro Department.

Geography

The municipality Uncía at the transition of the highlands of Oruro in the mountain of Potosí. The municipality is bounded on the north and west by high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central. The vegetation is that of the Puna, the climate is a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are larger than the monthly fluctuations.

The mean annual temperature is 9 ° C, the monthly average values ​​vary between less than 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate chart ). The annual precipitation is 370 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the arid period with monthly values ​​of maximum 10 mm lasts from April to October.

Population

The population of the municipality Uncía has not changed significantly in the past two decades:

The population density of the municipality Uncia at the last census in 2001 was 22.5 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population was 23 percent, the life expectancy of newborns was 48 years.

The literacy rate in the over 19 -year-old at the same time was 61 percent, and that 78 percent of men and 45 percent in women.

Policy

Structure

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

• Canton Uncía ( central place: Uncía )
• Canton Cala Cala ( central Location: Cala Cala )

Until they separated 17 June 2009 belonged to the municipality also:

• Canton Chuquihuta ( central place: Chuquihuta ) - since an independent municipality