San Antonio de Esmoruco Municipality

The municipality of San Antonio de Esmoruco is a district in the Potosí Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality of San Antonio de Esmoruco is one of the three Municipalities in the province Sur Lípez. It is bordered to the north and west by the municipality of San Pablo de Lípez, in the southeast and east by the Republic of Argentina and the northeast on the municipality Mojinete. It extends over a length of about 90 kilometers and an average width of about 50 kilometers from northeast to southwest.

Central location of the county is San Antonio de Esmoruco with 370 inhabitants ( 2001) in the northeastern part of the municipios.

Geography

The municipality of San Antonio is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Lípez in the east. The region's climate is arid and has a time of day climate.

The mean annual temperature of the region is located at 6 ° C (see climate chart San Pablo), with a monthly average value of almost 1 ° C in July and 8 ° C from December to February. The annual rainfall is low 170 mm, with the months of April through October, virtually rainless. Only from November to March fall precipitation, with a maximum of 45 mm month precipitation in January.

Population

The population of the municipality of San Antonio has risen in the past two decades to more than double:

The population density of the municipality at the 2001 census was 0.7 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population is 0 percent. The proportion of under-15s in the population is 48.3 percent.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 79 percent, and that 94 percent of men and 64 percent in women. The most important idiom with a share of 98 percent is Quechua, 87 percent of the population speaks Spanish. 92 percent of the population are Catholic, 6 percent Protestant.

The life expectancy of newborns is 59 years. 99.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 92 percent have no sanitary facilities.

Policy

Structure

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

  • Canton of Guadalupe ( with the central Guadalupe )
  • Canton of San Antonio de Esmoruco ( with the central town of San Antonio de Esmoruco )
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