Azurduy Municipality (Municipio de Azurduy, Villa Azurduy Municipality) is the first municipal section of Azurduy Province in the Chuquisaca Department of Bolivia. Its seat is Villa Azurduy. In 2012 the population was 10,594 persons. The municipality is very poor; in 2010 93% were below the poverty line, and 75% were in extreme poverty. In 2001 there were seven automobiles (including trucks) in the municipality.
Geography The municipality is in the mountains of the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes, and is bordered on the west by the Pilcomayo River. The mountain ranges and the rivers are generally oriented north-south. Due to its elevation, the municipality experiences a wide range of temperatures between day and night. The average annual temperature is , the average monthly values varying between in June and July to in December and January. Annual precipitation barely reaches , with less than monthly in the dry season of May to August, and with the highest rainfall, per month, between December and February.
To the north Azurduy Municipality is bordered by Tarvita Municipality, also of Azurduy Province, and El Villar Municipality of Tomina Province; to the east by Hernando Siles Province, and to the west and south by Nor Cinti Province. There are 132 settlements in the municipality with thirty-six villages, of which only eight are accessible by road.
Climate
Government The Mayor of Azurduy is Felipe Álbarez Villarroel, who was elected in the March 2026 elections.
Azurduy has a municipal council with 5 seats, as do all municipalities with populations up to 15,000.
Seat Type Name Party / Political Organization 1 Member José Benito Rivera Martínez AGN Alternate Dolores López Cruz 2 Member Hugo Cruz Aguirre MTS Alternate Mirian Vedia Álvarez 3 Member Calixta Flores León PATRIA-UNIDOS Alternate Manuel Pérez Velásquez 4 Member Cirila Ibáñez Tolavi AGN Alternate Vicente Valdez Daza 5 Member Margarita Muñoz MTS Alternate Roberto Guzmán CondoriSource: Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
Economics The people are primarily employed in agriculture and livestock raising, although there is some mining. Major crops include corn, wheat, potatoes, barley and peppers. Sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, horses and poultry are raised.
The people The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechuan descent.
Ethnic group %Quechua62.4Aymara0.1Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos0.1Not indigenous or declined to state37.3Other indigenous groups0.1
Population The population of the municipality of Azurduy has not increased from 1992 to 2012. 1992: 10,818 inhabitants (census) 2001: 11,349 inhabitants (census) 2012: 10,594 inhabitants (census) At the 2001 census, the literacy rate was 61.4 percent, the life expectancy of the newborn was 57.0 years, and the infant mortality rate was 9.3 per cent. 60.9 percent of the population spoke Spanish, 55.8 percent spoke Quechua (2001). 90.3 percent of the population had access to electricity, while 89.7 percent lived without sanitation facilities.
Cantons The municipality is divided into three cantons. Las Casas Canton, with administrative seat in Torrecillas Azurduy Canton, with administrative seat in Villa Azurduy Antonio Lopez Canton, with administrative seat in San Antonio
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