Vallegrande Municipality

The municipality of Valle Grande (also: Valle Grande) (Spanish for "Big Valley " ) is a district in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality of Valle Grande is one of five Municipalities of the province of Valle Grande and includes the central areas of the province. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Trigal, on the northwest by the municipality of Moro Moro and the Cochabamba Department, to the west by the municipality of Pucara, on the southwest by the department of Chuquisaca, in the southeast of the province of Cordillera, to the east by the municipality of Postrer Valle, and on the northeast by the province of Florida.

The municipality extends between about 18 ° 17 'and 19 ° 10' south latitude and 63 ° 32 'and 64 ° 18 ' west longitude, its extension from west to east is up to 65 km and from north to south, up to 90 km.

The municipality comprises 109 municipalities ( Localidades ), central location of the municipality is the town of Valle Grande with 7,801 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the northern part of the county.

Geography

The municipality of Valle Grande is located in the transition zone between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental in the north and the Cordillera Central in the south-west, and the Bolivian lowlands to the east. The climate in the sheltered valleys is mild all year round and balanced, not as hot and humid as in the nearby lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is 18 ° C (see climate chart Valle Grande) and varies only slightly between 15 ° C in July and 20 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is about 700 mm, with only a weak dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 25 mm, and a humidity season from December to February, 100-130 mm monthly rainfall.

Population

The population of the municipality of Valle Grande has risen in the past two decades by about four percent:

The population density of the district at the last census in 2001 was 5.3 inhabitants / km ², the literacy rate was more than 15 years at the 81.6 per cent ( 1992) increased to 87.7 percent. The life expectancy of newborns was 68.0 years, infant mortality was 6.0 percent (1992 ) declined to 4.6 percent in 2001.

99.6 percent of the population speaking Spanish, 2.4 percent speak Quechua, Aymara and 0.4 percent. (2001)

63.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 66.2 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

90.4 percent of the 4,030 households have a radio, 42.6 percent have a television, 30.2 percent a bicycle, a motorcycle 5.1 percent, 10.0 percent own a car, 14.8 percent have a refrigerator, and 5.5 percent a telephone. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality of Valle Grande is divided into the following sixteen cantons ( cantones ):

  • Cantón Mankaillpa
  • Cantón Naranjos
  • Cantón Valle Grande
  • Cantón El Bello
  • Cantón Alto Seco
  • Cantón Masicuri
  • Cantón Sitanos
  • Loma Larga cantón
  • Cantón Khasa Monte
  • Cantón Piraymiri
  • Cantón Temporal
  • Cantón Guadelupe
  • Cantón Santa Ana
  • Cantón Santa Rosita
  • Cantón Chaco
  • Cantón San Juan del Tucumancillo
Departamento Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia) Vallegrande Province Vallegrande Municipios of Bolivia Chuquisaca Department Cordillera Province (Bolivia) Florida Province Cordillera Oriental (Bolivia) Cordillera Central (Bolivia) Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement Cantons of Bolivia
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