San Pedro de Tiquina Municipality

The municipality of San Pedro de Tiquina is a district in the Bolivian department of La Paz The municipality is named after the street of Tiquina, a 800 m wide Seeenge that connects the northern part of Lake Titicaca with the southern part.

Location in near space

The municipality of San Pedro de Tiquina is one of three Municipalities of the province of Manco Kapac and is located in the southeastern part of the province. It is also bordered to the south, east and north of Lake Titicaca, on the south by the Republic of Peru, and on the northeast by the municipality of Tito Yupanqui.

The municipality has 53 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is San Pedro de Tiquina with 839 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality, the largest village of San Pablo de Tiquina with 944 inhabitants on the northeast side of the Strait of Tiquina. (2001)

Geography

The municipality of San Pedro de Tiquina located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the Copacabana Peninsula in Lake Titicaca in an average height of 3850 m. The annual average temperature of the municipality lies at 10 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 8 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and about 100 mm from December to February.

Population

The municipality has an area of 60 km ² and a population density of 101.6 inhabitants / km ².

The population of the municipality of San Pedro de Tiquina has increased by about 20 % over the past two decades:

  • 5,490 inhabitants ( census 1992)
  • 6,093 inhabitants ( 2001 census )
  • 6,501 inhabitants ( 2005 estimate )
  • 6,570 inhabitants (estimate 2010)

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 57.8 years, the infant mortality rate of 9.7 % ( 1992) declined to 8.2 % in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 69.2 %, ie 90.4 % in men and 50.2 % in women ( 2001).

68.8 % of the population speak Spanish, 92.5 % speak Aymara, Quechua and 1.2%. (2001)

50.7 % of the population have no access to electricity, 83.1 % have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

65.3 % of the 2,171 households have a radio, 17.8 % have a television, 13.2% a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.1 %, 1.0% a car, 1.6 % have a refrigerator, 1.6% a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Canton calata de San Martin - 1,282 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Canton of San Pablo de Tiquina - 1,474 inhabitants
  • Canton of San Pedro de Tiquina - 839 inhabitants
  • Canton Santiago de Ojje - 516 inhabitants
  • Canton Villa Amacari 1,982 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Municipios of Bolivia Departments of Bolivia Tito Yupanqui Municipality Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Social Alliance Without Fear Movement Cantons of Bolivia
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