Jesús de Machaca Municipality

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

Location in near space

Jesús de Machaca The municipality is one of seven Municipalities of the province Ingavi and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Tiahuanacu and to the municipality Guaqui, on the northwest by the municipality of Desaguadero, on the west by the municipality of San Andrés de Machaca, in the south of the province Pacajes, on the east by the municipality of Viacha, and on the northeast by the Province of Los Andes.

The municipality has 102 localities ( Localidades ), the administrative seat of the municipality of Jesús de Machaca is with 396 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality. (2001)

Geography

Jesús de Machaca The municipality lies at an average altitude of 4000 m south of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.

The mean annual temperature of the region is located at 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 mm (see climate chart El Alto). 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 during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality of Jesús de Machaca has increased by about a quarter over the past two decades:

The municipality had at the last census of 2001 a population density of 13.9 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was at about 62 years, the infant mortality rate is 7.5 per cent ( 1992) declined to 7.0 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 15 years is 85.4 percent, and 94.1 percent, although in men and 77.5 percent for women ( 2001).

67.5 percent of the population speak Spanish, 97.2 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.2 percent. (2001)

90.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 36.6 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

64.5 percent of the total 4,239 households owned a radio, a television 1.3 percent, 37.7 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.5 percent, 0.7 percent own a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent and 0.3 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Aguallamaya - 1,694 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Chama - 1,278 inhabitants
  • Cantón Cuipa España de Machaca - 662 inhabitants
  • Jesús de Machaca cantón - 862 inhabitants
  • Tupac Katari cantón Kalla - 2,669 inhabitants
  • Cantón Khonkho San Salvador - 755 inhabitants
  • Cantón Mejillones de Machaca - 845 inhabitants
  • Cantón Santa Ana de Machaca - 363 inhabitants
  • Cantón Santo Domingo de Machaca - 588 inhabitants
  • Cantón Villa Asunción de Machca - 3,244 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Ingavi Province Municipios of Bolivia Tiwanaku Municipality Pacajes Province Viacha Municipality Los Andes Province (Bolivia) Cordillera Occidental (Bolivia) Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Cantons of Bolivia
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