Reyes Municipality
The municipality Reyes is a district in the department of Beni in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Reyes is one of four Municipalities of the province Ballivián and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the department of Pando, on the south by the municipality Rurrenabaque, on the southeast by the municipality of San Borja, on the east by the municipality of Santa Rosa de Yacuma, and to the north by the province Vaca Díez.
The largest town and administrative center in the municipality is the town with 6,277 inhabitants, Reyes (2001) in the southwestern part of the municipality.
Geography
The municipality Reyes is in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin east of the mountain ranges of the country in a year-round humid climate.
The mean average temperature of the region is 26 ° C (see climate chart Rurrenabaque ) and varies only slightly between 23 ° C in June and July and about 27 ° C from October to December. The annual rainfall is about 2000 mm, with a pronounced rainy season from December to March with 200-300 mm monthly rainfall and minimum monthly values just below 100 mm from July to September.
Population
The number of inhabitants in the municipality Reyes has risen in the last two decades to more than double:
The population density of the municipality at the 2001 census was 0.9 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population is 55.9 percent. The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 66.3 years.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 84.5 percent, and 86.4 percent, although in men and 82.0 percent for women ( 2001).
Policy
Cantons
The municipality consists of two cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón Reyes - 9,286 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Cavinas - 1,841 inhabitants ( 2001)