Curva Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality Curva is one of two Municipalities of the province of Bautista Saavedra and is located in the western part of the province. It is bordered to the north and west by the Province Franz Tamayo, in the south and east by the municipality of Charazani.

The central location of the municipality is Curva with 523 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the southern part of the county.

Geography

The municipality Curva is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the Cordillera Apolobamba, the northern section of the Bolivian Cordillera Central. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be stronger than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 13 ° C and thus 2 ° C lower than in neighboring Charazani (see climate chart Charazani ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 10 ° C in June / July and 15 ° C from November to February. The annual rainfall is around 750 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 20 mm from June to August and from 100 to 140 mm from December to March.

Population

The population of the municipality of Curva has almost doubled in the past two decades:

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 55.8 years, the infant mortality rate of 8.0 per cent ( 1992) rose to 9.1 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 15 years is 69.7 percent, and 86.5 percent, although in men and 53.8 percent for women ( 2001).

50.7 percent of the population speak Spanish, 80.4 percent speak Quechua, Aymara and 19.0 percent. (2001)

93.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 95.3 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

64.9 percent of households own a radio, a television 0.7 percent, 14.3 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.2 percent, 0.5 percent a car, a refrigerator 0.0 percent, 0.0 percent a phone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Calaya - 502 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Cañisaya - 204 inhabitants
  • Cantón Curva - 523 inhabitants
  • Cantón Kapna - 202 inhabitants
  • Cantón Lagunillas - 158 inhabitants
  • Cantón Puli - 136 inhabitants
  • Cantón Taypi Cañuhuma 323 inhabitants
  • Cantón Upinhuaya - 265 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Bautista Saavedra Province Municipios of Bolivia Franz Tamayo Province Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Cantons of Bolivia
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