Chuma Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality Chuma is one of three Municipalities of the province Muñecas and located in the western part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the province of Heliodorus Camacho, on the south by the province Omasuyos, on the east by the province Larecaja, on the northeast by the municipality of Ayata, and to the north by the province of Bautista Saavedra.

The municipality has 117 localities ( Localidades ). Administrative center of the municipality is Chuma with 392 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the central part of the municipality, the largest town is Chajlaya with 663 inhabitants.

Geography

The municipality Chuma is located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3000 m, on the western edge of the Cordillera Real. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The mean average temperature of the municipality lies at just 14 ° C (see climate chart Mocomoco ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 11 ° C in June / July and 15 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is about 750 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 20 mm from July to August and at 100-150 mm from December to March.

Population

The population of the municipality of Chuma has more than doubled in the past two decades:

The municipality had at the last census of 2001 a population density of 12 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 60.3 years, and the infant mortality rate was 9.3 per cent ( 1992) fell slightly to 7.2 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 62.4 percent, and that 76.6 percent of men and 47.2 percent of women ( 2001).

71.2 percent of the population speak Spanish, 88.5 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 9.8 percent. (2001)

97.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 84.7 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

51.8 percent of the total 3,453 households owned a radio, a television 0.3 percent, 5.7 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.3 percent, 0.4 percent own a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent and 0.1 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Chajlaya - 1,980 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Chuma - 2,812 inhabitants
  • Cantón Luquisani - 1,831 inhabitants
  • Cantón Sococoni - 1,751 inhabitants
  • Cantón Timusi - 3,658 inhabitants
  • Cantón Tuiluni - 842 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Chuma (La Paz) Municipios of Bolivia Departments of Bolivia Eliodoro Camacho Province Larecaja Province Bautista Saavedra Province Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement National Unity Front Cantons of Bolivia
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