Tito Yupanqui Municipality

The municipality Tito Yupanqui is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia. The municipality is named in honor of Francisco Tito Yupanqui (1550-1616), who created a wooden statue of the "Dark Virgin " in Copacabana.

Location in near space

The municipality Tito Yupanqui is one of three Municipalities of the province of Manco Kapac and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered to the south, east and north of Lake Titicaca, on the west by the municipality of Copacabana, and to the southeast by the municipality of San Pedro de Tiquina.

The municipality has 21 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Tito Yupanqui with 773 inhabitants in the southern part of the municipality.

Geography

The municipality Tito Yupanqui lies on the Bolivian Altiplano on the Copacabana Peninsula in Lake Titicaca in an average height of 4050 m. The annual average temperature of the municipality is 10 ° C (see climate chart El Alto), the annual precipitation is about 600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 8 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and about 100 mm from December to February.

Population

The population of the municipality of Tito Yupanqui has more than doubled in the past two decades:

The municipality has an area of ​​16 km ² and had at the 2001 census, a population density of 105.4 inhabitants / km ².

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 59.3 years, the infant mortality rate of 6.6 per cent ( 1992) rose to 7.6 percent in 2001.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 59.0 percent, and 78.3 percent, although in men and 44.3 percent for women ( 2001).

54.5 percent of the population speak Spanish, 98.7 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.2 percent. (2001)

64.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 87.1 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

59.6 percent of households have a radio, 14.2 percent have a television, 9.9 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.1 percent, 1.4 percent, a car, a refrigerator 0.3 percent, and 0.4 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality is subdivided into only one canton ( cantón ), the Canton of Tito Yupanqui. This, in turn, includes the following Subkantone:

  • Subkanton Alto Sihualaya - 378 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Subkanton Chichilaya - 230 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Chiquipata - 233 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Coaquipa - 225 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Huatapampa - 204 inhabitants
  • Subkanton Parqui Pujio - 180 inhabitants
  • Tito Yupanqui Subkanton - 773 inhabitants
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