Comanche Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality Comanche is one of eight Municipalities of the province Pacajes and lies in the northern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of Caquiaviri, to the south by the municipality of Coro Coro, on the east by the province of flavor, and the north by the province Ingavi.

The municipality includes 36 villages ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is Comanche with 410 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the central part of the county.

Geography

The municipality Comanche is on an average height of 4000 m south of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be stronger than during the year.

The mean annual temperature of the region is located at 7 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm, the month between rainfall less than 10 mm from May to July and from 100 to 150 mm from January to February are.

Population

The population of the municipality of Comanche has decreased over the past two decades by about 15 percent:

The municipality had at the last census in 2001, a population density of 9.0 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 57.4 years, the infant mortality rate was 6.9 per cent ( 1992) to 8.4 percent in 2001 increased.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 77.2 percent, and 88.7 percent, although in men and 67.1 percent for women ( 2001).

78.0 percent of the population speak Spanish, 96.6 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)

89.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 64.6 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

72.6 percent of the total 1,199 households owned a radio, a television 4.5 percent, 4.5 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.8 percent, 0.4 percent own a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent and 0.2 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

• Cantón Comanche - 2,497 inhabitants ( 2001)
• Cantón General José Ballivián - 281 inhabitants
• Cantón Rosas Pata Tuli - 232 inhabitants
• Cantón Tocopilla Cantuyo - 852 inhabitants