San Pedro de Quemes Municipality

The municipality of San Pedro de Quemes is a district in the Potosí Department in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

San Pedro de Quemes is one of two Municipalities in the province of Nor Lípez and closes in the south to the Salar de Uyuni. It is bordered to the north by the province of Daniel Campos, on the west by the Republic of Chile, and on the south and east by the municipality of Colcha "K". It extends about 135 km from north to south and about 80 km in east-west direction.

Central location of the county is San Pedro de Quemes with 490 inhabitants ( 2001) on the northern edge of the municipios.

Geography

The municipality of San Pedro de Quemes located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Lípez in the southeast.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is only 70 mm (see climate chart Avaroa ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 10 ° C from December to February. Notable month rainfall of 30 mm per month falling only in the months of January and February, the rest of the year is virtually rainless.

Population

The only small population of the municipality of San Pedro de Quemes has risen in the past two decades to nearly twice:

The population density of the municipality at the 2001 census was 0.2 inhabitants / km ². The proportion of urban population is 0 percent, the proportion of under-15s in the population is 43.6 percent.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 92 percent, and that 96 percent of men and 86 percent in women. The most important idiom with a share of 98 percent Spanish, 33 percent of the population speak Quechua; 93 percent of the population are Catholic, 3 percent Protestant.

The life expectancy of newborns is 62 years. 98 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 99 percent have no sanitary facilities.

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Cana - 44 inhabitants (2001)
  • Cantón Chiguana - 10 inhabitants
  • Cantón Pajancha - 52 inhabitants
  • Cantón Pelcoya - 135 inhabitants
  • Cantón San Pedro de Quemes - 574 inhabitants
Departamento Municipios of Bolivia Salt lake Daniel Campos Province Cordillera Occidental (Bolivia) Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement Cantons of Bolivia
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