La Paz Municipality, Bolivia

The municipality of La Paz (more precisely: " Nuestra Señora de La Paz " ) 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 Paz is one of five Municipalities of the province of Murillo and lies in the northern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of El Alto, to the southwest by the municipality of Achocalla, to the south by the municipality of Mecapaca, on the southeast by the municipality of Palca, on the east by the province of Nor Yungas, in the north- east by the province Caranavi, on the north by the Larecaja Province, and on the northwest by the province Loayza.

The municipality has 62 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality of La Paz is with 791 633 inhabitants ( 2001) in the southern part of the municipality.

Geography

The municipality of La Paz is on the edge of the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3800 m directly west of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperature differences between day and night fluctuate more than between seasons.

The average annual temperature of the municipality is 10 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 8 ° C in July and 12 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is less than 600 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June to August and about 100 mm in January.

Population

The population of the municipality of La Paz has increased by almost 20 percent over the past two decades:

The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 399 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.7 years, the infant mortality rate of 5.8 per cent ( 1992) declined to 5.4 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 94.6 percent, and 98.4 percent, although in men and 91.3 percent for women ( 2001).

98.0 percent of the population speak Spanish, 33.5 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 5.7 percent. (2001)

19.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 49.9 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

90.2 percent of households have a radio, 87.9 percent have a television, 26.7 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.3 percent, 19.3 percent have a car, 44.1 percent have a refrigerator, a 50.5 percent phone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón La Paz - 791 633 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Zongo - 1,660 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Municipios of Bolivia Palca Municipality Nor Yungas Province Caranavi Province Loayza Province Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Without Fear Movement Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples National Unity Front Revolutionary Nationalist Movement Social Alliance Cantons of Bolivia
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