Pazña Municipality
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|native_name = Pasña
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|subdivision_type1 = Department
|subdivision_name1 = Oruro Department
|subdivision_type2 = Province
|subdivision_name2 = Poopó Province
|subdivision_type4 = Cantons
|subdivision_name4 = 5: Pazña, Totoral, Peñas, Avicaya, and Urmiri
|seat_type = Seat
|seat = Pazña
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|leader_title = Mayor (interim)
|leader_name = Gualberto Abad Olmos Leaños (2010)
|leader_title1 = Council President
|leader_name1 = Martin Sabino Quispe Alarcón (2010)
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|established_title2 = Incorporated (vice-canton)
|established_date2 = 1904
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|established_date3 = 6 January 1961
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|population_total = ~7,000
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|population_blank1 =Quechua (Tapacarí and Cóndor Apacheta ayllus), Urus
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Pazña Municipality is a municipality of the Poopó Province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Pazña.{{Cite news | last = Alandia Atahuichy | first = Elsa | title = Bodas de Oro del Municipio de Pazña | work = La Patria | location = Oruro | access-date = 2011-05-10 | date = 2011-01-06 | url = http://www.lapatriaenlinea.com/?nota=54285 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110722234520/http://www.lapatriaenlinea.com/?nota=54285 | url-status = usurped | archive-date = July 22, 2011 }}
Government
Municipal governments in Bolivia are divided into executive and legislative branches. The Mayor of Pazña is the head of the city government, elected by general election for a term of five years. The Municipal Council is the legislative branch.
The current mayor of Pazña is Gualberto Abad Olmos Leaños of the National Unity Front, who took office in June 2010 following the resignation of Víctor Centeno (of the Movement for Socialism). A new mayor will be selected in a special election expected to be held in 2011.
Subdivision
The municipality used to be divided into five cantons.
Languages
Climate
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|location = Pazña, elevation {{convert|3710|m|ft|abbr=on}}
|Jan high C = 20.9
|Feb high C = 19.9
|Mar high C = 20.5
|Apr high C = 20.0
|May high C = 17.2
|Jun high C = 15.4
|Jul high C = 15.6
|Aug high C = 17.7
|Sep high C = 19.6
|Oct high C = 21.6
|Nov high C = 22.9
|Dec high C = 22.1
| year high C =
|Jan mean C = 12.2
|Feb mean C = 11.8
|Mar mean C = 11.2
|Apr mean C = 9.0
|May mean C = 5.2
|Jun mean C = 3.1
|Jul mean C = 3.3
|Aug mean C = 5.5
|Sep mean C = 8.0
|Oct mean C = 9.5
|Nov mean C = 11.4
|Dec mean C = 12.1
| year mean C =
|Jan low C = 3.5
|Feb low C = 3.7
|Mar low C = 2.0
|Apr low C = -2.1
|May low C = -6.8
|Jun low C = -9.1
|Jul low C = -9.2
|Aug low C = -6.8
|Sep low C = -3.6
|Oct low C = -2.7
|Nov low C = -0.2
|Dec low C = 2.1
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|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 121
|Feb precipitation mm = 126
|Mar precipitation mm = 94
|Apr precipitation mm = 17
|May precipitation mm = 3
|Jun precipitation mm = 1
|Jul precipitation mm = 2
|Aug precipitation mm = 12
|Sep precipitation mm = 24
|Oct precipitation mm = 21
|Nov precipitation mm = 30
|Dec precipitation mm = 85
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| source 1 = Plataforma digital única del Estado Peruano{{cite web
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240611060222/http://pelt.gob.pe/sirh/Plan_Director/estudio%20de%20climatologia.pdf
| archive-date = 11 June 2024
| url = http://pelt.gob.pe/sirh/Plan_Director/estudio%20de%20climatologia.pdf
| title = PLAN DIRECTOR GLOBAL BINACIONAL DE PROTECCION - PREVENCION DE INUNDACIONES V APROVECHAMIENTO DE LOS RECURSOS DEL LAGO TITICACA, RIO DESAGUADERO, LAGO POOPO V LAGO SALAR E COIPASA (SISTEMA T.D.P.S.) ESTUDIO DE CLIMATOLOGIA
| publisher= The European Commission (EC)
| access-date = 11 June 2024}}
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References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120427221753/http://aguabolivia.org/situacionaguaX/Riego/mapas/oruro/poopo.htm Map of the Poopó Province]
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