Charaña Municipality
The municipality Charaña is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Charaña is one of eight Municipalities of the province Pacajes and is located in the southwestern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the province José Manuel Pando, on the west by the Republic of Chile, to the southeast and east by the municipality of Calacoto, and to the north by the municipality of Caquiaviri.
The municipality has 140 localities ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is Charaña with 817 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) at the very western edge of the county.
Geography
The municipality Charaña is on an average height of 4100 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 semi-arid climate Charaña because not enough rainfall for crop growth during the course of more than six months. The average annual temperature in the municipality of Charaña is 8.3 ° C, annual rainfall is only 300 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between some 5 ° C from June to July and just over 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of May to October and about 50 mm from December to March.
Population
The population of the municipality Charaña has increased by about 20 percent over the past two decades:
The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 1.0 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was only 53.8 years, the infant mortality rate was 7.9 per cent ( 1992) to 9.9 percent in 2001 increased.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 88.3 percent, and 96.0 percent, although in men and 80.0 percent for women ( 2001).
87.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 83.9 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.5 percent. (2001)
90.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 82.2 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
51.7 percent of the total of 846 households have a radio, a television 8.4 percent, 52.8 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 5.8 percent, 2.5 percent own a car, a refrigerator 0.2 percent and 0.7 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following six cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Charaña - 903 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Chinocavi - 420 inhabitants
- Eduardo Abaroa cantón - 214 inhabitants
- Cantón General Perez - 456 inhabitants
- Cantón Ladislao Cabrera - 392 inhabitants
- Cantón Río Blanco - 381 inhabitants