Irupana Municipality

The municipality Irupana (also ' "Villa de Lanza " ) is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Irupana is one of five Municipalities of the Province Sud Yungas, located in the southern part of the province. It is bordered on the southwest by the province of Murillo, in the south of the province Loayza, on the southeast by the provincial Inquisivi, on the northeast by the municipality of La Asunta, on the north by the municipality of Chulumani, and on the northwest by the municipality of Yanacachi.

The municipality has 109 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Irupana with 1,882 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality. The second largest town in the municipality is Chicaloma with 634 inhabitants. (2001)

Geography

The municipality is located in the Bolivian Yungas Irupana at an average altitude of 1800 m on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night be stronger than between seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is 19 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1150 mm (see climate chart Chulumani ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 17 ° C in July and 21 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall between about 20 mm in the months of June and July, and more than 150 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality Irupana has decreased over the past two decades by about 10 percent:

The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 8.3 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 61.6 years, the infant mortality rate is 5.1 per cent (1992 ) rose to 6.6 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 80.0 percent, and 88.3 percent, although in men and 70.0 percent for women ( 2001).

90.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 56.4 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 1.8 percent. (2001)

66.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 67.3 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

82.9 percent of the 3,624 households have a radio, 23.9 percent have a television, 10.1 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 4.6 percent, 3.8 percent, a car, a refrigerator 7.1 percent, 0.7 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Chicaloma - 1,177 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Irupana - 4,465 inhabitants
  • Cantón Lambate - 2,693 inhabitants
  • Cantón Laza - 800 inhabitants
  • Cantón Taca - 1,080 inhabitants
  • Cantón Victorio Lanza - 1,168 inhabitants
Departamento Sud Yungas Province Municipios of Bolivia La Paz Department (Bolivia) Loayza Province Inquisivi Province Yanacachi Municipality Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples National Unity Front Cantons of Bolivia
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