Apolo Municipality

The municipality of Apolo is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality of Apolo is one of two municipios Province Franz Tamayo and lies in the eastern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the Republic of Peru, to the southwest by the municipality of Pelechuco and to the Province of Bautista Saavedra, on the south by the province Larecaja, in the southeast of the province of Sud Yungas, to the east by the department of Beni, and to the north by the province Abel Iturralde.

The municipality has 86 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Apolo with 2,123 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the central western part of the county.

Geography

The municipality of Apolo is located in the northern part of the Bolivian Cordillera Central, in the transition region to the Bolivian lowlands.

The region has, in the temperature profile at a very equable climate, the average temperature is 20.4 ° ​​C (see climate chart ), the average monthly temperatures vary only slightly between 21 ° C from October to March and almost 19 ° C in June and July. Annual precipitation is in the long -term average at just 1300 mm, the short dry season in June and July with monthly rainfall less than 35 mm is an extended time with humidity up to 200 mm from in December and January.

Population

The population of the municipality of Apolo has increased only marginally over the past two decades:

The municipality of Apolo pointed at the last census of 2001, a population density of 0.9 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 65.4 years, the infant mortality rate was 8.6 per cent ( 1992) to 5.0 percent in 2001 sunk.

The literacy rate for those over 15 years is 77.6 percent, and 83.0 percent, although in men and 71.5 percent for women ( 2001).

73.9 percent of the population speak Spanish, 91.0 percent speak Quechua, Aymara and 1.9 percent. (2001)

98.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 83.5 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

57.5 percent of households own a radio, a television 9.0 percent, 25.6 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 2.9 percent, 0.4 percent a car, a refrigerator 1.9 percent, 0.0 percent a phone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Apolo - 6,951 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Aten - 3,573 inhabitants
  • Cantón Mojos - 56 inhabitants
  • Cantón Pata - 454 inhabitants
  • Cantón Santa Cruz del Valle Ameno - 2,141 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Franz Tamayo Province Apolo, La Paz Municipios of Bolivia Pelechuco Municipality Bautista Saavedra Province Larecaja Province Sud Yungas Province Beni Department Abel Iturralde Province Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Without Fear Movement Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples National Unity Front Cantons of Bolivia
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