Quime Municipality
The municipality Quime is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Quime is one of six Municipalities of the province Inquisivi and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the province Loayza, to the south by the municipality of Ichoca, on the southeast by the municipality of Inquisivi, on the east by the municipality of Licoma Pampa, on the northeast by the municipality of Cajuata, and to the north by the province of Sud Yungas.
The municipality has 47 localities ( Localidades ), the administrative center of the municipality is Quime with 2,439 inhabitants in the southeast part of the municipality. (2001)
Geography
The municipality Inquisivi is on an average height of 2800 m on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz, between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the seasonal variation.
The mean average temperature of the region is 10.5 ° C (see climate chart Quime ), the average monthly temperatures range from 7 ° C in June / July and about 13 ° C in November / December. The annual rainfall is about 600 mm, May-August there is a dry season with monthly rainfall less than 15 mm, in the months of January and February fall in the long-term average 120-130 mm of rain.
Population
The population of the municipality Quime has not changed significantly in the past two decades:
The municipality had at the last census in 2001 a population density of 8.5 inhabitants / km ². The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 58.4 years, the infant mortality rate is 10.6 per cent ( 1992) declined to 8.0 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 15 years is 79.5 percent, and 91.5 percent, although in men and 66.8 percent for women ( 2001).
89.6 percent of the population speak Spanish, 70.5 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 2.2 percent. (2001)
42.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 78.8 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
72.1 percent of the total of 2,305 households have a radio, 44.1 percent have a television, 11.8 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 5.2 percent, 3.1 percent, a car, a refrigerator 8.3 percent and 1.3 percent a telephone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following four cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Choquetanga - 2,537 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Figueroa - 149 inhabitants
- Cantón Huaña Cota - 69 inhabitants
- Cantón Quime - 4,583 inhabitants