Colomi Municipality
The municipality Colomi is a district in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Colomi is one of three Municipalities of the province of Chapare. It is bordered to the west and south by the municipality of Sacaba, on the southeast by the province Tiraque, and in the north east and north by the municipality of Villa Tunari.
The central location of the municipality is the city Colomi country with 3,699 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the central part of the district.
Geography
The municipality comprises Colomi one of the high valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental halfway between the Altiplano in the west and the Chapare lowlands to the east. The climate is temperate and a typical diurnal climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night be stronger than between the cold and warm season.
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 11 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly values fluctuate while only slightly between 8 ° C in June / July and about 14 ° C in November. The annual rainfall is around 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 15 mm, and a brief humidity from December to February 90 to 120 mm month precipitation.
Population
The population of the municipality Colomi has increased by almost 20 percent over the past two decades:
The population density of the municipality at the last census in 2001 was 29.4 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population was 22.7 percent, the life expectancy of newborns was 58.3 years.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 73.9 percent, and 86.8 percent, although in men and 61.8 percent for women ( 2001).
Policy
Structure
The municipality Colomi is divided into the following four cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Candelaria
- Cantón Colomi
- Cantón San José
- Cantón Tablas Monte