Teoponte Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality Teoponte is one of eight Municipalities of the province Larecaja and is located in the northeastern part of the province. It is bordered to the north by the Province Franz Tamayo, in the west and south by the municipality of Guanay, in the southeast of the province Caranavi and on the east by the province of Sud Yungas.

The municipality measures from north to south and from west to east for 45 km. The municipality comprises 87 municipalities ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is the village with 1,421 inhabitants Teoponte ( 2001 census ) in the southwestern part of the county.

Geography

The municipality Teoponte located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in Bolivia's Yungas lowlands in the catchment area of ​​the Río Beni, one of the major rivers of the Amazon lowlands. The mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C (see climate chart Guanay ) and the annual rainfall is about 1600 mm. The region has no distinct temperature pattern on the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 23 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from November to January, and the day and night temperatures have only small fluctuations. The monthly rainfall range from less than 50 mm during the months of June and July, and more than 200 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality Teoponte has declined by about a quarter in the last decade of the 20th century and has since changed significantly:

The infant mortality rate in the municipality is Teoponte of 9.4 percent ( 1992) declined to 7.6 percent in 2001, the literacy rate for those over 6 years was 88.6 percent in 2001.

92.4 percent of the population speak Spanish, 44.5 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 9.5 percent. (2001)

54.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 70.1 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

65.0 percent of the 2,287 households have a radio, 13.2 percent have a television, 16.4 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.3 percent, 2.1 percent, a car, a refrigerator, 8.7 percent, 0.1 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

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

• Cantón Litoral Tajlihui - 49 communities - 2,914 inhabitants ( 2001)
• Cantón Teoponte - 38 communities - 4,195 inhabitants