Punata Municipality

The municipality Punata is a district in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Punata is one of five Municipalities of the province Punata. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of San Benito, in the southwest of the province of Germán Jordán, to the south by the municipality of Villa Rivero, on the east by the province of Arani and on the northeast by the province Tiraque.

The central location of the municipality 's 14,742 inhabitants with Punata in the northern part of the county ( 2001).

Geography

The municipality Punata lies in the transitional area between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east.

The mean average temperature of the region is almost 18 ° C (see climate chart Cochabamba ) and varies only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an 90-110 mm monthly rainfall.

Population

The population of the municipality Punata has fallen over the past two decades by more than ten percent:

The population density of the municipality at the last census of 2001 was 303 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population is 56.4 percent. The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 63.6 years.

The literacy rate in the over 19 year olds is 81.5 percent, and 94.2 percent, although in men and 72.0 percent for women ( 2001).

Policy

Structure

The municipality is not further subdivided into cantons ( cantones ) and consists only of:

• Cantón Punata