Papel Pampa Municipality

The municipality Papel Pampa is a district in the Bolivian department of La Paz

Location in near space

The municipality Papel Pampa is one of three Municipalities of the province of Gualberto Villarroel and is located in the southeastern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of San Pedro de Curahuara, to the south and east by the department of Oruro, and to the north by the province of flavor.

The municipality has 61 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Papel Pampa with 153 inhabitants in the southern part of the municipality. The largest town in the municipality of San José is Alto with 247 inhabitants. (2001)

Geography

The municipality Papel Pampa lies in a vast hill country on the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3900 meters, bounded on the east by the ridge of the Serranía de Huayllamarca and to the north by the Río Desaguadero.

The mean average temperature of the municipality is just under 8 ° C (see climate chart Huayllamarca ) and the annual rainfall is about 300 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 10 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall less than 20 mm from October to April and reach their maximum in the month of July with 85 mm.

Population

The population of the municipality of Papel Pampa has risen in the past two decades by about half:

The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 6.7 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 61.4 years, the infant mortality rate of 7.7 per cent ( 1992) declined to 6.7 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 80.5 percent, and 91.6 percent, although in men and 68.0 percent for women ( 2001).

76.5 percent of the population speak Spanish, 94.5 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.3 percent. (2001)

98.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 55.4 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

83.7 percent of the 1,008 households owned a radio, a television 2.1 percent, 85.1 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 9.2 percent, 4.6 percent, a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent, 0.7 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Canton Caylla Churo - 90 inhabitants (2001)
  • Canton Circa Cruzani - 125 inhabitants
  • Eduardo Abaroa Canton - 698 inhabitants
  • Canton Mollebamba - 935 inhabitants
  • Canton Pacollo - 204 inhabitants
  • Canton Papel Pampa - 1,083 inhabitants
  • Canton Rivera Alta - 1,181 inhabitants
  • Canton San Felipe de Challa - 151 inhabitants
  • Canton Unopata - 1,839 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Gualberto Villarroel Province Municipios of Bolivia Departments of Bolivia San Pedro de Curahuara Municipality Aroma Province Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement Cantons of Bolivia
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