Presto, Bolivia

The municipality Presto is a district in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Presto is one of four Municipalities of the province Jaime Zudañez and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the north by the department of Cochabamba, on the west by the Province Oropeza, to the south by the municipality of Zudañez, and on the east by the municipality of Mojocoya.

The municipality comprises 156 municipalities ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is the village of Presto with 793 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the southwestern part of the district, the second largest town is Pasopaya with 537 inhabitants.

Geography

The municipality Presto is located between the Altiplano in the west and the lowlands to the east in a north- south running of the side valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Central. The climate of the region is a distinct diurnal climate where the temperature differences between day and night clearly vary as the average values ​​between summer and winter.

The average annual temperature is 14 ° C (see climate chart Azurduy ), the monthly values ​​vary between 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C in December / January. The annual precipitation has a value of just 550 mm, with a dry season and monthly values ​​below 10 mm from May to August and maximum values ​​of 100-110 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality Presto has risen by about a third in the past two decades:

The population density at the last census in 2001 was 6.8 inhabitants / km ², the literacy rate for those over 6 -year-old stood at 41.8 percent, and that 49.0 percent of men and 32.8 percent among women. The life expectancy of newborns was 51.1 years, the infant mortality rate is at 10.6 percent ( 1992) remained high until 2001.

22.7 percent of the population speak Spanish, 99.2 percent speak Quechua, Aymara and 0.0 percent. (2001)

89.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 90.3 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

60.7 percent of the 1,958 households owned a radio, a television 3.9 percent, 6.9 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.4 percent, 0.3 percent own a car, a refrigerator 1.7 percent, and 0.1 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality comprises three cantons ( cantones ):

• Cantón Pasopaya - 40 municipalities - 1,576 inhabitants ( 2001)
• Cantón Presto - 79 municipalities - 5,458 inhabitants
• Cantón Rodeo - 37 communities - 1,858 inhabitants