Tacopaya Municipality

The municipality Tacopaya is a district in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Tacopaya is one of two Municipalities of the province Arque. It is bordered to the west by the department of Oruro, on the south by the province of Bolívar, on the east by the municipality of Arque, and to the north by the province Tapacari.

Central place of Municipalities is Tacopaya with 137 inhabitants in the eastern part of the municipality. (2001)

Geography

The municipality Tacopaya lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Oriental in the east on the northern foothills of the Cordillera Central.

The climate of the region is semiarid and a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the differences in temperature during the year (see climate chart Arque ). The average annual temperature is around 10-11 ° C, with monthly averages in June / July are as low as 6-7 ° C and the summer values ​​in January / February at 13 ° C. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, rain richest month is January with 140 mm; May to August there is a dry season with monthly rainfall of less than 10 mm.

Population

The population of the municipality Tacopaya has risen in the past two decades by more than half:

The population density of the municipality at the 2001 census was 21.2 inhabitants / km ², the percentage of urban population is 0.0 percent.

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 50.7 years.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 52.9 percent, and 75.0 percent, although in men and 32.3 percent for women ( 2001).

Further details on the population situation, the data show the following table:

Policy

Structure

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

• Cantón Tacopaya
• Cantón Ventilla