Luribay Municipality
The municipality Luribay is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Luribay is one of five Municipalities of the province Loayza and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of Sapahaqui, to the south by the province of flavor, to the southeast by the municipality of Yaco, on the east by the municipality of Malla, and on the northeast by the municipality of Cairoma.
The municipality has 79 localities ( Localidades ), the administrative center of the municipality is Luribay with 434 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality, the biggest town in the municipality of Anchallani with 643 inhabitants. (2001)
Geography
The municipality Luribay lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region exhibits a typical day time environment, where the temperature differences between day and night is greater than the temperature difference between seasons.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 15 ° C and varies between 11-12 ° C in June / July and about 16 ° C in November (see climate chart ). The annual rainfall is 600 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to August and monthly rainfall of over 100 mm in January and February.
Population
The population of the municipality Luribay has decreased over the past two decades by about 5 percent:
The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 17.9 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.8 years, the infant mortality rate of 7.7 per cent ( 1992) declined to 7.0 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 78.5 percent, and that 90.1 percent of men and 67.6 percent for women ( 2001).
74.7 percent of the population speak Spanish, 97.3 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)
99.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 96.2 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
71.6 percent of the total 2,286 households owned a radio, a television 8.1 percent, 22.2 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.3 percent, 2.6 percent, a car, a refrigerator 1.2 percent and 0.2 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following six cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Anchallani - 1,850 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Eduardo Abaroa cantón Colliri - 520 inhabitants
- Cantón Luribay - 4,140 inhabitants
- Cantón Poroma - 681 inhabitants
- Cantón Porvenir - 1,366 inhabitants
- Cantón Taucarasi - 447 inhabitants