Araj Huma
| Araj Huma | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 55 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3745 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1801-0600-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 38 ′ S , 67 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Gualberto Villarroel Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Callapa climate diagram |
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Araj Huma (also Arax Uma ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Araj Huma is located in the province of Gualberto Villarroel in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) of San Pedro de Curahuara . The village is located at an altitude of 3745 m , ten kilometers south of the Río Desaguadero and 30 kilometers west of the Serranía de Huayllamarca ridge .
geography
Araj Huma is located 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's climate is typical of the time of day , in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the seasonal temperature fluctuations.
The mean annual temperature of the region is 8 to 9 ° C (see Callapa climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 5 ° C in June / July and a good 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is around 400 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 25 mm from April to October and only reaches a value of 100 mm in January.
Transport network
Araj Huma is 155 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 2 leads to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as an asphalt road via Patacamaya to Sica Sica . From there an unpaved road leads south, after about thirty kilometers crosses the Río Desaguadero and after another ten kilometers reaches Araj Huma . From Araj Huma further south a road leads to Papel Pampa , to the west you reach the provincial capital San Pedro de Curahuara .
population
The population of the village has decreased drastically in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 403 | census |
| 2012 | 55 | census |
Due to the historical development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of San Pedro de Curahuara 96.8 percent of the population speak the Aymara 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 February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ INE social data ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Topographic map of the Eucaliptus region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.4 MB)
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio San Pedro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 436 kB) ( Spanish )