Alalay Municipality

The municipality Alalay is a district in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Alalay is one of three Municipalities of the province Mizque. It is bordered on the northwest by the province Punata, on the southwest by the province of Esteban Arce, on the south by the municipality of Vila Vila, on the east by the municipality of Mizque, in the northeast province Carrasco, and to the north by the province Arani.

The central location of the municipality is Alalay with 638 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the northwestern part of the county.

Geography

The municipality Alalay located in the northwestern part of the Cordillera Oriental, the eastern mountain chain of the Bolivian high mountains. The climate of the region is characterized by a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the seasonal variation. The average annual temperature is 12 ° C (see climate chart Vacas ), the temperatures in the winter months of June / July at just 10 ° C and in November / December at a little over 14 ° C. The annual precipitation is 550 mm and reaches in the summer months from December to February values ​​of 100-120 mm, while in the arid months from May to September almost no precipitation falls.

Population

The population of the municipality Alalay has increased by about three-quarters over the past two decades:

The population density of the municipality at the last census of 2001 was 12 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 57.4 years, the percentage of urban population is 0.0 percent.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 62.1 percent, and that 77.5 percent of men and 47.7 percent for women ( 2001).

Policy

Structure

The municipality is divided into two cantons ( cantones ):

• Cantón Alalay
• Cantón Ayapampa