Guaqui Municipality
The municipality Guaqui is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Guaqui is one of seven Municipalities of the province Ingavi and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of Desaguadero, on the south by the municipality of Jesús de Machaca, on the southeast by the municipality of Taraco, on the east by the municipality Tiahuanacu, and to the north by Lake Titicaca.
The municipality has 34 localities ( Localidades ), the administrative center of the municipality is Guaqui with 695 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality. The largest town in the municipality of Puerto Guaqui is 1,204 residents. (2001)
Geography
The municipality Guaqui is located southeast of Lake Titicaca between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano and was hit in the past three millennia of significant water-level fluctuations of the lake.
The climate is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses. The annual average temperature is close to 8 ° C, the monthly values vary only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C from November to March. The mean annual precipitation is about 670 mm (see climate chart ) and falls mainly in the months of December to March, more than 100 mm per month, from May to August, there is a dry season with monthly rainfall less than 15 mm.
Population
The population of the municipality Guaqui has increased by about 60 percent over the past two decades:
The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 40 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns was 63.7 years, and the infant mortality rate was 8.0 per cent ( 1992) declined to 5.7 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 71.1 percent, and 88.9 percent, although in men and 55.9 percent for women ( 2001).
75.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 87.9 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.6 percent. (2001)
57.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 75.6 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
68.6 percent of the total of 2,272 households have a radio, 22.1 percent have a television, 40.9 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.4 percent, 2.3 percent, a car, a refrigerator 1.6 percent and 1.2 percent a telephone. (2001)
Structure
The municipality is subdivided into cantons not ( cantones ) but consists only of the Cantón Guaqui.