Azurduy Municipality

The municipality Azurduy is a district in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Azurduy is one of two Municipalities of the province Azurduy and lies in the southern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of Tarvita, the west and south by the province of Nor Cinti and the east and north by the province of Hernando Siles.

The municipality has 132 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is the village with 1,098 inhabitants Azurduy ( 2001 census ) in the northern part of the county.

Geography

The municipality Azurduy lies between the Altiplano in the west and the lowlands to the east in a north- south running of the side valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Central.

The climate of the region is a distinct diurnal climate where the temperature differences between day and night clearly vary as the average values ​​between summer and winter. The average annual temperature is 14 ° C (see climate chart Azurduy ), the monthly values ​​vary between 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C in December / January. The annual precipitation has a value of just 550 mm, with a dry season and monthly values ​​below 10 mm from May to August and maximum values ​​of 100-110 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality Azurduy has increased by almost 15 percent over the past two decades:

The literacy rate has increased slightly in the 6 -year-old is 61.4 percent (2001 ), the life expectancy of newborns is 57.0 years, the infant mortality rate of 9.0 per cent ( 1992) to 9.3 percent in 2001.

60.9 percent of the population speak Spanish, 55.8 percent speak Quechua, Aymara and 0.1 percent. (2001)

90.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 89.7 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

54.8 percent of the 2,329 households owned a radio, a television 5.4 percent, 5.2 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.1 percent, 0.3 percent own a car, a refrigerator 2.1 percent, and 0.0 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality is divided into three cantons ( cantones ):

  • Cantón Azurduy - 65 villages - 4,431 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Antonio Lopez - 52 villages - 5,625 inhabitants
  • Cantón Las Casas - 15 villages - 1,293 inhabitants
Departamento Chuquisaca Department Azurduy Province Municipios of Bolivia Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement Cantons of Bolivia
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