Alota
| Alota | |||
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 Thoroughfare in Alota |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 436 pop. (2012 update) | ||
| height | 3816 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1601-0200-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 24 ′ S , 67 ° 36 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Enrique Baldivieso Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Avaroa climate diagram |
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Alota is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Alota is a central place in the canton of Alota and the second largest town in the province of Enrique Baldivieso . The village is located at an altitude of 3816 m on the southern edge of the stratovolcano Cerro San Agustín , which reaches an altitude of 5357 m. In a northeasterly direction flows past the village of the Río Alota , eight kilometers east of the village is the Laguna Tarija .
geography
Alota is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Lípez in the southeast.
The climate in this region in the southwest of the country is arid , only from January to March there is significant rainfall between 10 and 30 mm per month (see climate diagram Avaroa), in the remaining nine months there is only sporadic rainfall. The mean annual temperature of the region is around 7 ° C, the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 3 ° C in July and 10 ° C in January.
Transport network
Alota lies at a distance of 343 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the Ruta 5 trunk road leads 198 kilometers in a south-westerly direction to Uyuni , which is located on the Salar de Uyuni . South of Uyuni, a partially unpaved road continues in a south-westerly direction via San Cristóbal and reaches Alota after 145 kilometers . Two kilometers behind Alota, a track branches off to the north, which after 35 kilometers reaches the provincial capital of San Agustín .
population
The population of the village has increased by around a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 338 | census |
| 2001 | 515 | census |
| 2012 | 436 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the province of Baldivieso 95.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE social data 2001 ( Memento from December 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- 360 ° panoramic view of Alota ( see: http://www.360cities.net/image/alota#0.00,0.00,70.0 )
- Relief map of the Cerro Araral region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.85 MB)
- Municipio San Agustín - general maps No. 51601
- Municipio San Agustín - detailed map and population data (PDF; 708 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
