Loreto Municipality, Beni
The municipality of Loreto is a district in the department of Beni in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality of Loreto is one of two Municipalities of the province Marbán and located in the western part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the province Moxos, on the south by the department of Cochabamba, on the east by the municipality of San Andrés, and to the north by the province of Cercado.
The largest town and administrative center of the province is Loreto with 843 inhabitants ( 2001) in the northern part of the municipality.
Geography
Loreto is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the river plain of the Río Mamoré and has a year-round tropical hot and humid climate.
The average annual temperature is 26 ° C, with the average monthly temperatures between June / July of nearly 28 ° C differ only slightly with just over 23 ° C and October / December (see climate chart Trinidad ). The annual rainfall is nearly 2000 mm and is thus more than twice as high as the precipitation in Central Europe. Maximum values to February are about 300 mm in the months of December low values of about 50 mm in July / August over.
Population
The population of the municipality of Loreto has risen only marginally over the past two decades:
The population density of the municipality at the 2001 census was 0.6 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population is 0 percent. The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.5 years.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 80.0 percent, and 84.9 percent, although in men and 73.4 percent for women ( 2001).
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into four cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Limoquije - 1,096 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Loreto - 1,407 inhabitants
- Cantón Sachojere - 555 inhabitants
- Cantón San Antonio - 801 inhabitants