Ajoya

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Ajoya
Basic data
Residents (state) 175 pop. (2012 census)
height 3999  m
Post Code 02-1304-0300-7001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 16 ° 58 ′  S , 68 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 58 ′  S , 68 ° 5 ′  W
Ajoya (Bolivia)
Ajoya
Ajoya
politics
Department La Paz
province Provincial flavor
climate
Climate diagram Colquencha
Climate diagram Colquencha

Ajoya is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Ajoya is the central place of the Cantón Ajoya in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Calamarca in the province of Aroma and is located at an altitude of 3999  m . Ajoya is located on a north-south flat section of the Bolivian Altiplano that is up to twenty kilometers wide , the foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica rise directly on the edge of the village, which rise here to almost 5000 meters.

geography

Ajoya is located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate, in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the municipality is 10 ° C (see Colquencha climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and just under 12 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is around 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 125 mm in January.

Transport network

Ajoya is located 67 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department.

From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there 54 kilometers south the Ruta 1 to Ajoya and on via Patacamaya to Caracollo , where the Ruta 1 leads south to Oruro and the Ruta 4 into Cochabamba branches off to the east .

population

The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 225 census
2001 48 census
2012 175 census

Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Ayo Ayo 95.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ INE social data ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 12.2 MB)

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