Pucarani Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality Pucarani is one of four Municipalities of the Province of Los Andes and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of Batallas and to the municipality of Puerto Pérez, on the west by the province Ingavi, to the south by the municipality of Laja, on the east by the province of Murillo, and to the north by the province Larecaja.

The municipality has 141 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Pucarani with 840 inhabitants in the central part of the county. (2001)

Geography

The municipality Pucarani is on an average height of 3900 m southeast of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.

The mean annual temperature of the region is located at 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality Pucarani has increased by about 35 % over the past two decades:

The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 28.9 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.8 years, the infant mortality rate of 7.7 per cent ( 1992) fell slightly to 7.4 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 71.7 percent, and 86.8 percent, although in men and 57.7 percent for women ( 2001).

64.2 percent of the population speak Spanish, 96.7 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)

61.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 69.3 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

50.7 percent of the total of 7,702 households have a radio, 12.5 percent have a television, 29.0 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 2.0 percent, 3.3 percent, a car, a refrigerator, 0.3 percent and 0.6 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Catavi
  • Cantón Chojasivi
  • Cantón čohaňa
  • Cantón Lacaya
  • Cantón Patamanta
  • Cantón Pucarani
  • Cantón Villa Ascension de Chipamaya
  • Cantón Villa Iquiaca
  • Cantón Villa de Pablon Chiarpata
  • Cantón Villa Rosario de Corapata
  • Cantón Villa Vilaque
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Los Andes Province (Bolivia) Municipios of Bolivia Ingavi Province Larecaja Province Cordillera Occidental (Bolivia) Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement Cantons of Bolivia
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