El Alto Municipality, La Paz

The municipality of El Alto (more precisely: " El Alto de La Paz " ) is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality of El Alto is one of five Municipalities of the province of Murillo and located in the western part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the province of Los Andes, on the southwest by the province Ingavi, to the south by the municipality of Achocalla, and on the east by the municipality of La Paz

The municipality has 17 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality of El Alto is with 647 350 inhabitants in the south-eastern part of the county.

Geography

The municipality of El Alto is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 4000 m directly west of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be stronger than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the municipality is located at 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm (see climate chart ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and over 100 mm in January and February.

Population

The population of the municipality of El Alto has more than doubled in the past two decades:

The municipality has te at the last census in 2001 a population density of 1920 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns was 62.1 years, the infant mortality rate was slightly, from 6.5 percent (1992 ) declined to 6.4 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 90.8 percent, and 97.3 percent, although in men and 84.8 percent for women ( 2001).

95.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 52.9 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 2.9 percent. (2001)

14.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 36.7 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

81.2 percent of the 165 320 households have a radio, 70.5 percent have a television, 25.8 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.7 percent, 8.6 percent, a car, a refrigerator 10.5 percent, 18.1 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality is not further subdivided into cantons ( cantones ), but consists of the following eight sub- cantons ( subcantones ):

  • Subkanton Ciudad El Alto - 647 350 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Subkanton Chusa Marca - 281 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Comunidad Milluni - 189 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Mercedario - 151 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Porvenir III - 515 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Tacachira - 1,304 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Comunidad Alto Milluni - 77 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Comunidad Pochocollo Alto - 191 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) El Alto, La Paz Municipios of Bolivia Los Andes Province (Bolivia) Ingavi Province Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement National Unity Front Cantons of Bolivia
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