Alto Cañaviri

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Alto Cañaviri
Basic data
Residents (state) 145 pop. (2012 census)
height 4203  m
Post Code 02-1004-0200-3001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 25 ′  S , 66 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 25 ′  S , 66 ° 58 ′  W
Alto Cañaviri (Bolivia)
Alto Cañaviri
Alto Cañaviri
politics
Department La Paz
province Inquisivi Province
climate
Climate diagram Colquiri
Climate diagram Colquiri

Alto Cañaviri is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Alto Cañaviri is the fifth largest town in the canton of Caluyo in the municipality of Colquiri in the Inquisivi province . The village is located at an altitude of 4203  m on a right, eastern tributary of the Río Jacuma.

geography

Alto Cañaviri lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.

The annual average temperature of the Alto Cañaviri region is 7 ° C (see Colquiri climate diagram), the average monthly values ​​fluctuate only slightly between 3 ° C in June and July and 9 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 100 to 120 mm in January and February.

Transport network

Alto Cañaviri is located at a distance of 365 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.

From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 1 leads in a south-easterly direction 300 kilometers via Patacamaya and Sica Sica to Caracollo , and from there Ruta 4 to the east for another 30 kilometers to Lequepalca . Five kilometers behind Lequepalca, at the mouth of the Río Janho Kkota near Thola Pampa / Aranjuez, a dirt road branches off to the north and reaches Alto Cañaviri via Ancocota past Caluyo after 29 kilometers .

population

The population of the village has decreased by about a tenth over the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 159 census
2012 145 census

The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of the Aymara on, 82.9 percent of the inhabitants of the municipality colquiri speak Aymara .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo

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