Calacoto Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality Calacoto is one of eight Municipalities of the province Pacajes and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of Charaña, on the southeast by the Departamento Oruro, on the east by the municipality of Callapa, on the northeast by the municipality of Coro Coro, and to the north by the municipality of Caquiaviri.

The municipality covers 305 localities ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is Calacoto with 279 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the northeastern part of the county 's largest town is Ulloma with 307 inhabitants.

Geography

The municipality Calacoto is on an average height of 3900 m south 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 in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 8 ° C (see climate chart Callapa ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 5 ° C in June and we 10 ° C from November to March. The annual rainfall is low 400 mm, the monthly values ​​range from less than 10 mm from May to August and 100 mm in January.

Population

The population of the municipality Calacoto has increased by about 40 percent over the past two decades:

The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 2.3 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 58.9 years, and the infant mortality rate was 8.9 per cent ( 1992) to 7.8 percent in 2001 decreased.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 85.5 percent, and 95.4 percent, although in men and 75.4 percent for women ( 2001).

71.5 percent of the population speak Spanish, 93.1 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)

97.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 60.9 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

58.5 percent of the total 3,083 households owned a radio, a television 0.8 percent, 47.0 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.4 percent, 1.4 percent, a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent and 0.3 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Audiencia - 1,057 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Calacoto - 1,802 inhabitants
  • Cantón Caracollo - 54 inhabitants
  • Cantón Challuyo - 381 inhabitants
  • Cantón General Camacho - 545 inhabitants
  • Cantón General Campero - 470 inhabitants
  • Cantón Laguna Blanca - 194 inhabitants
  • Cantón Max Toledo - 314 inhabitants
  • Cantón Okoruro - 540 inhabitants
  • Cantón Playa Verde - 453 inhabitants
  • Cantón Rosario - 307 inhabitants
  • Cantón Ulloma - 2,106 inhabitants
  • Cantón Villa Condor Iquiña - 596 inhabitants
La Paz Department (Bolivia) Pacajes Province Municipios of Bolivia Cordillera Occidental (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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