Batallas Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality of Batallas is one of four Municipalities of the Province of Los Andes and is located in the northern part of the province. It is bordered on the west by Lake Titicaca and to the municipality of Puerto Pérez, on the south by the municipality of Pucarani, on the north by the province Larecaja, and on the northwest by the province Omasuyos.

The municipality has 79 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Batallas with 1,966 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the western part of the county.

Geography

The municipality of Batallas is on an average height of 3900 m southeast of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 8.8 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November / December. The annual rainfall is about 600 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 20 mm from May to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality of Batallas has increased by about 15 percent over the past two decades:

The municipality had increased slightly in the last 2001 census, a population density of 19 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 60.4 years, the infant mortality rate was 6.0 percent (1992 ) to 7.1 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate in the over 19 year olds is 74.1 percent, and 88.0 percent, although in men and 61.9 percent for women ( 2001).

66.8 percent of the population speak Spanish, 93.9 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.2 percent. (2001)

60.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 66.0 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

60.3 percent of the total of 5,118 households have a radio, 15.9 percent have a television, 35.5 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.9 percent, 2.9 percent, a car, a refrigerator 0.6 percent and 1.3 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Batallas
  • Cantón Huancane
  • Cantón Huayna Potosi
  • Cantón Karhuisa
  • Cantón Kerani
  • Cantón Peñas
  • Cantón Villa Asuncion Tuquia
  • Cantón Villa Remedios de Calasaya
  • Cantón Villa San Juan de Chachacomani

The canton of Huayna Potosi was until the 1990s part of the municipality of Pucarani, but is now part of the municipality of Batallas.

Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Los Andes Province (Bolivia) Municipios of Bolivia Pucarani Municipality Larecaja Province Cordillera Occidental (Bolivia) Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Without Fear Movement Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Cantons of Bolivia
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