Ancocagua
| Ancocagua | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 570 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3890 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1201-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 26 ′ S , 68 ° 27 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Ancocagua is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Ancocagua is the third largest municipality in the canton of Pucarani in the municipality of Pucarani in the province of Los Andes and is located on the southeastern bank of the Laguna Laram Kkold at an altitude of 3890 m, twenty kilometers southeast of Lake Titicaca .
geography
Ancocagua lies on the Bolivian Altiplano 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 mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see Batalla's climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Ancocagua is located at a distance of 47 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the Ruta 2 road leads via El Alto in a northwesterly direction for thirty kilometers to Villa Vilaque . One kilometer northwest of Villa Vilaque, a dirt road branches off to the southwest and after sixteen kilometers via Corapata and Chojña Collo reaches the village of Ancocagua and continues from there to Pucarani .
population
The population of the place has increased by more than a quarter in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 449 | census |
| 2012 | 570 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Pucarani 96.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ INE social data ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the region of La Paz North 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Pucarani - General Maps No. 21201
- Municipio Pucarani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 647 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )