Santiago de Callapa Municipality

The municipality Callapa (also: Santiago de Callapa ) is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Callapa is one of eight Municipalities of the province Pacajes and lies in the eastern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of Calacoto, on the south by the department of Oruro, in the southeast of the province of Gualberto Villarroel, on the east by the province of flavor, and the north by the municipality of Coro Coro.

The municipality covers 211 localities ( Localidades ). The central location of the municipality is Callapa with 268 inhabitants in the southern part of the county, largest town in the municipality of Centro Comunidad canuta with 415 inhabitants. (2001)

Geography

The municipality Callapa located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3850 meters, bounded on the east by the ridge of the Serranía de Huayllamarca and to the north by the Río Desaguadero. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate where the temperatures during the day have larger fluctuations than in the course of the year.

The mean average temperature of the municipality is just under 9 ° C (see climate chart Callapa ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 5 ° C in July and well 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is about 400 mm, the monthly rainfall are between 0-10 mm in the months of May to August and 100 mm in January.

Population

The population of the municipality Callapa has increased by a quarter over the past two decades:

The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 6.6 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 62.1 years, the infant mortality rate was 9.4 percent (1992 ) declined to 6.4 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 75.0 percent, and 88.9 percent, although in men and 59.8 percent for women ( 2001).

67.5 percent of the population speak Spanish, 97.3 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.1 percent. (2001)

98.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 70.6 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

57.6 percent of the total 2,650 households owned a radio, a TV 0.5 percent, 32.3 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.4 percent, 0.8 percent own a car, a refrigerator 0 percent and 0.0 percent phone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Callapa - 3,781 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Calteca - 1,195 inhabitants
  • Cantón Romero Pampa - 1,343 inhabitants
  • Cantón San Francisco de Yaribay - 619 inhabitants
  • Cantón Villa Puchuni - 1,053 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Pacajes Province Municipios of Bolivia Gualberto Villarroel Province Aroma Province Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement National Unity Front Cantons of Bolivia
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