Copacabana Municipality, La Paz

The municipality of Copacabana is a district in the Bolivian department of La Paz

Location in near space

The municipality of Copacabana is one of three Municipalities of the province of Manco Kapac and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the northeast, north and west of Lake Titicaca, on the southeast by the municipality of Tito Yupanqui, and on the south by the Republic of Peru.

The municipality has 66 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Copacabana with 4,161 inhabitants in the western part of the municipality.

Geography

The municipality of Copacabana is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the Copacabana Peninsula in Lake Titicaca and the islands Isla del Sol comprises (Sun Island ) and Isla de la Luna (Moon Island). The average height of the municipality is 3850 m. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses. The annual average temperature of the municipality is located at 8 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between good 5 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and between 100 and 150 mm from December to March.

Population

The population of the municipality of Copacabana has increased by about 10 % over the past two decades, with the increase confined almost exclusively on the central site:

The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 83.8 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 63.3 years, the infant mortality rate was 6.5% (1992 ) declined to 5.9 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 71.6 percent, and 88.0 percent, although in men and 57.8 percent for women ( 2001).

65.9 percent of the population speak Spanish, 94.3 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.4 percent. (2001)

40.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 62.5 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

75.0 percent of households have a radio, 29.7 percent have a television, 22.0 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.7 percent, 3.0 percent, a car, a refrigerator 3.1 percent, 6.2 percent phone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Copacabana - 8,194 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Lokha - 2,388 inhabitants
  • Cantón Zampaya - 4,004 inhabitants
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