Ocurí Municipality

The municipality Ocurí is a district in the Potosí Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Ocurí is one of four Municipalities in the province Chayanta. It is bordered to the north and west by the municipality of Colquechaca, on the southwest by the province of Tomás Frías, in the southeast of the province of Cornelio Saavedra, and on the east by the municipality of Ravelo. It extends about 65 km from north to south and about 35 km in east-west direction.

The central location of the municipality is the village with 1,408 inhabitants Ocurí (2001) in the center of the district.

Geography

The municipality Ocurí lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central in the east. The region is characterized by a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperatures between day and night fluctuate more than in the average year.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the monthly average temperature at 5 ° C in June and July and just above 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 460 mm (see climate chart ), with May to September a pronounced dry season, with monthly rainfall of less than 15 mm prevails from December to February, a humidity time with 80-100 mm per month.

Population

The population of the municipality Ocurí has risen in the past two decades by more than half:

The population density of the municipality at the last census in 2001 was 23.5 inhabitants / km ². The proportion of urban population is 0 percent, the proportion of under-15s in the population is 44 per cent. The life expectancy of newborns is 53 years.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 40 percent, and that 61 percent of men and 20 percent in women.

The most important idiom with a share of 78 percent is Quechua. 90 percent of the population are Catholic, 3 percent Protestant.

89 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 98 percent have no sanitary facilities.

Policy

Structure

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

• Cantón Chairapata
• Cantón Maragua
• Cantón Marcoma
• Cantón Ocurí