Colcha "K" Municipality

The municipality Colcha "K" is a district in the Potosí Department in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Colcha "K" is one of two Municipalities in the province of Nor Lípez and closes in the south to the Salar de Uyuni. It is bordered to the north by the province of Daniel Campos, on the west by the municipality of San Pedro de Quemes, on the southwest by the Republic of Chile, to the south by the province and the province Sur Lípez Enrique Baldivieso, in the southeast of the province Sur chichas, and in North east by the province Antonio Quijarro. It extends for about 200 km in both north-south as in east-west direction.

The central location of the municipality is the village Colcha "K" with 853 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the northwestern part of the county.

Geography

The municipality Colcha "K " is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Lípez in the southeast on the Salar de Uyuni. To the northwest of the access to the nearby Salar de Uyuni by two five -thousand is more difficult, however, to provide the region around Colcha "K" with the important for agriculture orographic rainfall.

Worth mentioning here as precipitation falls only in the months of January to March, the remaining nine months of the year are arid, the total rainfall of the region does not reach 100 mm per year. The annual average temperature is about 7 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 2 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C from November to March, but nocturnal frost passages throughout the year are possible.

Population

The population of the municipality Colcha "K" has increased by about half over the past two decades:

The population density of the municipality at the last census in 2001 was 0.4 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population was 0 percent, the proportion of under-15s in the population, the life expectancy of newborns was 45 percent at 57 years.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 85 percent, and that 94 percent of men and 77 percent in women.

The most important idiom with a share of 90 percent is Quechua, 88 percent of the population speaks Spanish. 90 percent of the population are Catholic, 6 percent Protestant.

96 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 92 percent have no sanitary facilities.

Policy

Structure

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

  • Canton Atulcha - 102 inhabitants (2001)
  • Canton Chuvica - 53 inhabitants
  • Canton Calcha "K" - 617 inhabitants
  • Canton Cocani - 1,982 inhabitants
  • Canton Colcha "K" - 1,224 inhabitants
  • Canton Julaca - 61 inhabitants
  • Canton Llavica - 274 inhabitants
  • Canton of Rio Grande - 777 inhabitants
  • Canton San Cristóbal - 1,980 inhabitants
  • Canton San Juan - 981 inhabitants
  • Santiago Canton
  • Canton Santiago de Agencha - 258 inhabitants
  • Canton Soniquera - 822 inhabitants
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