Tarabuco Municipality

The municipality Tarabuco is a district in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Tarabuco is one of two Municipalities of the province Yamparáez and comprises the eastern half. It is bordered on the northwest by the Province Oropeza, on the west by the municipality of Yamparáez, on the southwest by the Potosí Department, and to the southeast and east by the province Jaime Zudañez.

The municipality extends approximately between 18 ° 52 'and 19 ° 22' south latitude and 64 ° 44 ' and 65 ° 05 ' west longitude, its extension from west to east is up to 30 kilometers from north to south, up to 45 km.

The municipality comprises 154 municipalities ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is the town with 2,442 inhabitants Tarabuco ( 2001 census ) in the western part of the county.

Geography

The municipality is located in Tarabuco ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central, between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east. The climate is cool temperate mountain climate with typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences during the day fluctuate more than the year.

The average annual temperature in Tarabuco is around 9 ° C (see climate chart Tarabuco ), the monthly average values ​​vary between 6 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 600 mm and has four arid months from May to August with monthly values ​​below 10 mm, and a significant humidity from December to February month rainfall 100-125 mm.

Population

The population of the municipality Tarabuco is only slightly increased over the past two decades:

The population density at the last census in 2001 was 18.5 inhabitants / km ², the literacy rate for those over 6 years was 67.5 percent. The life expectancy of newborns was 54.3 years, infant mortality was 11.9 per cent ( 1992) declined to 10.3 percent in 2001.

33.7 percent of the population speak Spanish, 98.6 percent speak Quechua, Aymara and 0.1 percent speak. (2001)

79.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 81.2 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

73.9 percent of the 4,271 households have a radio, 11.6 percent have a television, 20.2 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.3 percent, 1.7 percent, a car, a refrigerator 1.6 percent, and 0.5 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality Tarabuco consists of the following two cantons ( cantones ):

• Cantón Pajcha - 8 Vicecantones - 8 municipalities - 1,016 inhabitants ( 2001)
• Cantón Tarabuco - 66 Vicecantones - 146 congregations - 18,538 inhabitants ( 2001)