Umala Municipality
The municipality Umala is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality Umala is one of seven Municipalities of the province of flavor and is located in the southwestern part of the province. It is bordered to the west by the province Pacajes, to the south by the province Gualberto Villarroel, on the east by the municipality of Sica Sica, and to the north by the municipality of Patacamaya.
The municipality has 99 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Umala with 152 inhabitants in the central part of the municipality ( census 2001). The only other large town in the municipality is Cañaviri with 992 inhabitants ( update 2010).
Geography
The municipality Umala Umala located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The mean average temperature of the region is about 7 ° C, the annual precipitation is 460 mm (see climate chart Patacamaya ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to August and at 110 mm in January.
Population
The municipality has an area of 849 km ² and had the last census in 2001, a population density of 11.3 inhabitants / km ².
The population of the municipality Umala has doubled in the past two decades about:
The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 61.0 years, the infant mortality rate of 6.2 per cent ( 1992) rose slightly to 6.9 percent in 2001.
The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 87.7 percent, and 95.3 percent, although in men and 79.4 percent for women ( 2001).
79.7 percent of the population speak Spanish, 91.0 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.7 percent. (2001)
83.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 61.2 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).
71.9 percent of households have a radio, 14.4 percent have a television, 43.4 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 1.0 percent, 4.6 percent, a car, a refrigerator 0.5 percent, 1.7 percent phone. (2001)
Policy
Structure
The municipality is divided into the following nine cantons ( cantones ):
- Canton Asunción Huancaroma - 1,583 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Canton Cañaviri - 803 inhabitants
- Canton of San José de Llanga - 1,039 inhabitants
- Canton San Miguel de Copani - 1,449 inhabitants
- Canton Santiago de collana - 576 inhabitants
- Canton Umala - 1,509 inhabitants
- Canton Vituy Vinto - 339 inhabitants