Palos Blancos Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality of Palos Blancos is one of five Municipalities of the Province Sud Yungas, located in the northern part of the province. It is bordered to the north by the Province Franz Tamayo, in the northwest of the province Larecaja, on the southwest by the province Caranavi, to the south by the municipality of La Asunta, on the southeast by the Cochabamba Department, and to the east by the department of Beni.

The municipality has 143 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality of Palos Blancos is with 2,961 inhabitants in the central part of the county. Other notable towns in the municipality are Sapecho with 775 inhabitants and San Miguel de Huachi with 719 inhabitants. (2001)

Geography

The municipality of Palos Blancos is located in the Bolivian Yungas to an average height of 500 m east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real and mainly covers the mountains of the Sierra de Marimonos along the Río Beni.

The mean average temperature of the region is 28 ° C, the annual precipitation is nearly 1600 mm (see climate chart ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 25 ° C in June / July and 29 ° C from October to March. The monthly rainfall less than 50 mm during the months of June and July, and more than 200 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality of Palos Blancos has nearly doubled in the past two decades:

The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 4.7 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 61.5 years, the infant mortality rate of 8.9 per cent ( 1992) declined to 6.7 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 86.8 percent, and that 94.3 percent of men and 76.3 percent for women ( 2001).

95.7 percent of the population speak Spanish, 33.8 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 13.7 percent. (2001)

75.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 38.4 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

67.0 percent of the 4,248 households have a radio, 20.4 percent have a television, 36.5 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 2.9 percent, 4.4 percent, a car, a refrigerator 10.3 percent, 0.9 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality is not further subdivided into cantons ( cantones ) and consists of 103 sub- cantons ( subcantones ).