Alota Canton
The Canton Alota is a municipality in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The Cantón Alota is one of four cantons in the county ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of San Agustín Enrique Baldivieso. It is bordered on the north by the Canton of San Agustín, in the east and west by the province of Nor Lípez, and on the south by the Canton of Cerro Gordo.
The canton extends between about 21 ° 14 'and 21 ° 25' south latitude and 67 ° 25 ' and 67 ° 42 ' west longitude, from north to south it measures up to 15 kilometers from west to east up to 30 kilometers. In the canton there are four municipalities, the central location is Alota in the southwestern part of the canton with 515 inhabitants ( 2001 census). The average height of the canton is 3900 m.
Geography
The Canton Alota is on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Lípez in the southeast.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is only 70 mm (see climate chart Avaroa ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 10 ° C from December to February. Notable month rainfall of 30 mm per month falling only in the months of January and February, the rest of the year is virtually rainless.
Population
The number of inhabitants in the canton has increased between the last two censuses by about half:
The population density in the municipality of San Agustín at the 2001 census was 0.7 inhabitants / km ²; 72 percent of the population work in agriculture, 28 percent in services.
The proportion of under-15s in the population is 46.5 percent. The life expectancy of newborns is 59 years.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 85 percent, and that 97 percent of men and 76 percent in women. The most important idiom with a share of 96 percent is Quechua, 86 percent of the population speaks Spanish. 95 percent of the population are Catholic, 2 percent Protestant.
99.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 99 percent have no sanitary facilities.
Structure
The Cantón Alota is divided into the following two Subkantone ( vicecantones ):
- Vice Canton Alota - one community - 515 inhabitants ( 2001 census )
- Vicecantón Rodeo - 3 municipalities - 18 inhabitants