Santiago de Machaca Municipality

The municipality of Santiago de Machaca is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality of Santiago de Machaca is one of two Municipalities of the province of José Manuel Pando and lies in the eastern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the Republic of Peru and the municipality Catacora, to the south and southeast to the province Pacajes, and to the north by the province Ingavi.

The municipality has 138 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality of Santiago de Machaca with 819 inhabitants in the northwestern part of the municipality. (2001)

Geography

The municipality of Santiago de Machaca is at an average altitude of 3900 m southwest of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The mean annual temperature of the region is located at 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality of Santiago de Machaca has increased by about a third in the past two decades:

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 64.6 years, the infant mortality rate of 7.9 per cent ( 1992) declined to 5.3 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 87.9 percent, and 97.0 percent, although in men and 79.0 percent for women ( 2001).

79.3 percent of the population speak Spanish, 89.5 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.3 percent. (2001)

90.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 49.4 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

72.9 percent of the total 1,608 households owned a radio, a television 2.3 percent, 50.5 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.4 percent, 1.3 percent, a car, a refrigerator, 0.4 percent and 0.1 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Bautista Saavedra - 168 inhabitants (2001)
  • Cantón Berenguela - 602 inhabitants
  • Cantón Exaltación - 478 inhabitants
  • Cantón General José Ballivián - 358 inhabitants
  • Cantón Santiago de Huari Pujio - 130 inhabitants
  • Cantón Santiago de Machaca - 2,666 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Municipios of Bolivia Departments of Bolivia Pacajes Province Ingavi Province Cordillera Occidental (Bolivia) Cordillera Central (Bolivia) 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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