Umanata Municipality

The municipality Humanata (also: Umanata ) is a district in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Humanata has been established by law in 2009 as an independent municipality and essentially emerged from the Canton Umanata, which was one of nine cantons of the municipality of Puerto Acosta to 2009.

Today, the municipality is Humanata is one of five Municipalities of the province of Heliodorus Camacho and is located in the northwestern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the Republic of Peru, to the southwest and south by the municipality of Puerto Acosta, and on the east by the municipality of Mocomoco.

The municipality has consists of 25 Subkantonen ( vicecantones ) and has 46 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Humanata with 196 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the southern part of the municipios.

The municipality Humanata located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Real.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 850 mm (see climate chart Puerto Acosta ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate on the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 6 ° C in July and well 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm in June to August and a humidity from December to March values ​​120-170 mm.

Population

The population of the municipality Humanata as the entire municipality of Puerto Acosta has hardly changed over the past two decades:

For the entire municipality of Puerto Acosta were at the last census from 2001, the following data:

  • The municipality had a population density of 33.2 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 59.8 years, the infant mortality rate was 6.5 per cent ( 1992) rose to 7.4 percent in 2001.
  • The literacy rate for those over 15 years was 72.6 percent, and that 87.5 percent of men and 58.9 percent for women.
  • 51.1 percent of the population speak Spanish, 97.3 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.2 percent.
  • 82.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 87.1 percent have no sanitary facilities.
  • 45.2 percent of households have a radio, a television 4.5 percent, 22.1 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.4 percent, 0.5 percent a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent, and 0.2 percent a telephone.

Policy

Structure

The municipality is not further subdivided into cantons ( cantones ).

Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Eliodoro Camacho Province Municipios of Bolivia Cantons of Bolivia Puerto Acosta Municipality Aymara language Without Fear Movement Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples
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