Exaltación Municipality

The municipality Exaltación is a district in the department of Beni in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Exaltación is one of two Municipalities of the province Yacuma and lies in the northern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the province Ballivián, to the south by the municipality of Santa Ana, in the east by the province Mamoré, and to the north by the province Vaca Díez.

Central place and the administrative seat of the province is Exaltación the Río Mamoré with 1,476 inhabitants ( 2001) on the southeastern edge of the county.

Geography

The municipality is located in Exaltación Bolivian lowlands, its rivers belong to the basin of the Amazon basin. The region belongs to the area of the semi-humid tropics, the climate is hot and humid for most of the year.

The average annual temperature is 27.3 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 25.5 ° C in June / July and 28.3 ° C in October / November (see climate chart Santa Ana del Yacuma ). The annual rainfall at 1645 m are roughly twice as high as in Central Europe. A short dry season from June to August with monthly values ​​of less than 35 mm is compared with a moisture time to March identifies precipitation values ​​greater than 200 mm of December.

Population

The population of the municipality Exaltación has risen in the past two decades to more than three times:

The population density of the municipality at the last census in 2001 was 0.4 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population is 0 percent. The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 65.7 years.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 84.5 percent, and 88.2 percent, although in men and 79.1 percent for women ( 2001).

Policy

Structure

The municipality consists of only one canton ( cantón ):

• Cantón Exaltación