Ancocota
| Ancocota | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 154 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4109 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1004-0771-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 33 ′ S , 66 ° 59 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Inquisivi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colquiri |
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Ancocota (also Villa Hancocota or Jankho Kkota ) is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Ancocota is the central place of the canton Villa Hancacota in the municipality of Colquiri in the province of Inquisivi . The village is located at an altitude of 4109 m on the south flowing Río Jankho Kkota, which joins six kilometers downstream with the Río Huaylla Uma to the Río Thola Pampa.
geography
Ancocota 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 in the Ancocota 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
Ancocota is located at a distance of 342 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 after Lequepalca, at the mouth of the Río Janho Kkota near Thola Pampa / Aranjuez, a dirt road branches off to the north and reaches Ancocota after six kilometers.
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 293 | census |
| 2012 | 154 | 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
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Oruro-Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Relief map of the Bolívar region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Municipio Colquiri - General Maps No. 21004
- Municipio Colquiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 588 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )