Chulumani Municipality
The municipality Chulumani is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Chulumani is one of five Municipalities of the Province Sud Yungas, located in the southern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the province of Nor Yungas, to the west by the municipality of Yanacachi, on the southeast by the municipality of Irupana, and on the northeast by the municipality of La Asunta.
The municipality has 79 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Chulumani with 2,724 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality. Other major towns in the municipality of Pasto Pata are 775 inhabitants and Huancané with 686 inhabitants. (2001)
Geography
The municipality is located in the Bolivian Yungas Chulumani at an average altitude of 1800 m on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperatures fluctuate more during the day than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual rainfall is about 1150 mm, the monthly rainfall is between about 20 mm in the months of June and July, and more than 150 mm from December to February.
Population
The population of the municipality Chulumani has increased by a third in the past two decades:
The municipality had at the last Volkszähluing of 2001, a population density of 47 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 63.5 years, and the infant mortality rate was 6.1 percent (1992 ) declined to 5.8 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 84.4 percent, and 91.4 percent, although in men and 76.9 percent for women ( 2001).
94.7 percent of the population speak Spanish, 49.9 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 1.3 percent. (2001)
36.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 64.2 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
85.9 percent of the 3,734 households have a radio, 42.0 percent have a television, 18.9 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 2.7 percent, 4.4 percent, a car, a refrigerator 14.3 percent, 1.0 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following five cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Chirca - 939 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Chulumani - 6,158 inhabitants
- Cantón Huancané - 3,892 inhabitants
- Cantón Ocobaya - 1,286 inhabitants
- Cantón Villa Asunta - 729 inhabitants