Sorata Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality Sorata is one of eight Municipalities of the province Larecaja and located in the central southern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of Tacacoma, on the west by the province Muñecas, on the southwest by the municipality of Combaya and to the provincial Omasuyos, to the south and southeast by the municipality of Guanay, on the east by the municipality of Tipuani, and on the northeast by the municipality of Mapiri.

The municipality measures in North-South direction up to 50 km in east-west direction up to 70 km. The municipality has 200 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Sorata with 2,217 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the southwestern part of the county.

Geography

The municipality Sorata is in the high mountain range of the Cordillera Real on the western foothills of the Massif Illampú. The mean average temperature of the central town of Sorata is 18 ° C (see climate chart ), the annual precipitation is slightly more than 600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between well 15 ° C in June / July and a good 19 ° C in November / December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 25 mm in the months of May to August and 100 to 125 mm from December to February.

Population

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

The municipality had at the last census of 2001 a population density of 9.5 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 59.3 years, the infant mortality rate was 9.6 per cent ( 1992) declined to 7.6 percent in 2001, the literacy rate for those over 6 years was 69.2 percent.

63.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 92.2 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 1.1 percent. (2001)

77.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 74.0 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

56.6 percent of the 6,149 households owned a radio, a television 8.7 percent, 3.3 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.3 percent, 2.0 percent, a car, a refrigerator 2.7 percent, 0.6 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

  • Cantón Ankoma - 27 municipalities - 2,208 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Cantón Chuchulaya - 21 municipalities - 1,819 inhabitants
  • Cantón Guachalla - 27 municipalities - 3,895 inhabitants
  • Cantón Obispo Bosque - 26 municipalities - 962 inhabitants
  • Cantón San Antonio de Millipaya - 10 municipalities - 1,444 inhabitants
  • Cantón Sorata - 74 communities - 7,096 inhabitants
  • Cantón Yani - 15 municipalities - 1,589 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Larecaja Province Municipios of Bolivia Tacacoma Municipality Tipuani Municipality Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Social Alliance Cantons of Bolivia
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