Puerto Acosta Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality of Puerto Acosta is one of three Municipalities of the province of Heliodorus Camacho and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the Republic of Peru, in the southwest on Lake Titicaca, on the southeast by the municipality of Puerto Carabuco, and on the east by the municipality of Mocomoco.

The municipality has 240 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality of Puerto Acosta is located with 1,123 inhabitants, in the northwestern part of the municipality on Lake Titicaca.

Geography

The municipality of Puerto Acosta is on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Real.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 850 mm (see climate chart ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate on the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 6 ° C in July and well 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm in June to August and a humidity from December to March values ​​120-170 mm.

Population

The population of the municipality of Puerto Acosta has hardly increased over the past two decades:

The municipality had at the 2001 census, a population density of 33.2 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.8 years, the infant mortality rate is 6.5 per cent ( 1992) rose to 7.4 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 15 years is 72.6 percent, and that 87.5 percent of men and 58.9 percent for women ( 2001).

51.1 percent of the population speak Spanish, 97.3 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.2 percent. (2001)

82.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 87.1 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

45.2 percent of households have a radio, a television 4.5 percent, 22.1 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.4 percent, 0.5 percent a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent, and 0.2 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Canton Chiñaya 6 de Agosto - 3,296 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Canton Collasuyo - 561 inhabitants
  • Canton Escoma - 5,097 inhabitants
  • Canton Peninsula de Challapata - 905 inhabitants
  • Canton Puerto Acosta - 6,745 inhabitants
  • Canton Puerto Parajachi - 2,245 inhabitants
  • Canton of San Juan de Cancanani - 1,486 inhabitants
  • Canton Umanata - 6,447 inhabitants
  • Canton Villa Puni - 514 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Eliodoro Camacho Province Municipios of Bolivia Puerto Carabuco Municipality Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Social Alliance Without Fear Movement National Unity Front Cantons of Bolivia
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