Ayo Ayo Municipality
The municipality Ayo Ayo is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Ayo Ayo is one of seven Municipalities of the province of flavor and is located in the northern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of Colquencha, on the west by the province Pacajes, to the south by the municipality of Patacamaya, on the east by the province Loayza, and to the north by the municipality of Calamarca.
The municipality has 75 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Ayo Ayo with 647 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality.
Geography
The municipality Ayo Ayo 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 good 7 ° C (see climate chart Patacamaya ), the annual precipitation is about 450 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the Between May and August and 100 mm in January.
Population
The population of the municipality of Ayo Ayo has increased by about 15 percent over the past two decades:
The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 14.4 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 62.5 years, the infant mortality rate was 10.7 per cent ( 1992) declined to 6.2 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 87.7 percent, and 94.9 percent, although in men and 80.5 percent for women ( 2001).
75.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 92.6 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)
85.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 69.4 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
67.2 percent of households own a radio, a television 8.7 percent, 47.8 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.4 percent, 6.3 percent, a car, a refrigerator 0.4 percent, 1.1 percent phone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following five cantons ( cantones ):
- Ayo Ayo cantón - 3,315 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón collana Tolar - 1,344 inhabitants
- Cantón Santa Rosa de Lima - 1,122 inhabitants
- Tupac Katari cantón - 223 inhabitants
- Cantón Villa Carmen - 977 inhabitants