La Asunta Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality of La Asunta is one of five Municipalities of the Province Sud Yungas, located in the central part of the province. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Palos Blancos, on the northwest by the province Caranavi, on the west by the province of Nor Yungas, to the southwest by the municipality of Chulumani, to the south by the municipality of Irupana, in the southeast of the province Inquisivi, and on the east by the department of Cochabamba.

The municipality has 143 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is La Asunta with 1,466 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality. Larger towns in the municipality are still La Calzada with 822 inhabitants and Las Mercedes with 625 inhabitants ( 2001).

Geography

The municipality of La Asunta is located on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Central at an average altitude of 1800 m, between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Cotapata in the east.

The mean average temperature of the municipality is 23 ° C (see climate chart ) and the annual rainfall is about 1,300 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 20 ° C in June / July and 25 ° C in November / December. La Asunta has a short dry season with monthly rainfall of 25 mm during the months of June and July, in the moisture time to reach the monthly values ​​up to 200 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality of La Asunta has doubled in the past two decades about:

The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 5.1 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.7 years, the infant mortality rate of 8.0 per cent ( 1992) declined to 7.5 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 75.0 percent, and 85.0 percent, although in men and 65.0 percent for women ( 2001).

91.2 percent of the population speak Spanish, 59.3 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 5.0 percent. (2001)

88.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 71.3 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

84.4 percent of households own a radio, a television 6.2 percent, 13.5 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 3.2 percent, 2.4 percent, a car, a refrigerator, 3.1 percent, 0.4 percent phone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Calisaya - 910 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Chamaca - 436 inhabitants
  • Cantón Charia - 755 inhabitants
  • Cantón Colopampa Grande - 514 inhabitants
  • Cantón Cotapata - 1,396 inhabitants
  • Cantón Huayabal - 506 inhabitants
  • Cantón La Asunta - 5,014 inhabitants
  • Cantón La Calzada - 1,564 inhabitants
  • Cantón Las Mercedes - 1,659 inhabitants
  • Cantón Puerto Rico - 985 inhabitants
  • Cantón San José - 657 inhabitants
  • Cantón Villa Barrientos - 2,059 inhabitants
  • Cantón Yanamayu - 552 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Sud Yungas Province Municipios of Bolivia Palos Blancos Municipality Caranavi Province Nor Yungas Province Inquisivi Province Cochabamba Department Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Cantons of Bolivia
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