Chuquihuta Municipality
The municipality Chuquihuta (full name: Chuquihuta ayllu Jucumani ) is a district in the Potosí Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Chuquihuta is one of four (up to June 2009: three) Municipalities in the province of Rafael Bustillo and bordered to the northwest and west by the municipality of Uncía, to the south by the department of Oruro, in the southeast of the province Chayanta, and on the east by the Municipio Chayanta.
The central location of the municipality is the village Chuquihuta with 531 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the northwestern part of the county.
Geography
The municipality Chuquihuta at the transition of the highlands of Oruro in the mountain of Potosí. The municipality is bounded on the north and west by high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central. The vegetation is that of the Puna, the climate is a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are larger than the monthly fluctuations.
The mean annual temperature is 9 ° C, the monthly average values vary between less than 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate chart Uncía ). The annual precipitation is 370 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the arid period with monthly values of maximum 10 mm lasts from April to October.
Population
The population of the municipality Chuquihuta has increased over the past two decades:
The population density of the municipality Uncía (which includes the Chuquihuta region until 2009 belonged ) at the last census of 2001 was 22.5 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population was 23 percent, the life expectancy of newborns was 48 years.
The literacy rate in the over 19 -year-old at the same time was 61 percent, and that 78 percent of men and 45 percent in women.
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Chuquihuta
- Camtón Tacopalca
- Cantón Luluni