Arapata
| Arapata | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1984 population (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1700 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1402-0371-1001 and 2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 16 ′ S , 67 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Nor Yungas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Coroico climate diagram |
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Arapata is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . It consists of the two districts of Santa Rosa de Lima and San José de Pery .
Location in the vicinity
Arapata is the central place of the canton Arapata in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Coripata in the province of Nor Yungas . The village is located at an altitude of 1700 m on a plateau on a left tributary of the Río Boopi , which flows north and flows into the Río Beni .
geography
Arapata is located in the transition area between the Altiplano and the Cordillera Real in the west and the foothills of the Amazon lowlands in the east.
The annual precipitation here in the subtropical Yungas is 1100 mm (see Coroico climate diagram) and has a clear dry season from May to August and a rainy season from December to February. The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 20 ° C and 25 ° C, during the day it is warm in summer and pleasantly cool at night.
Transport network
Arapata is located at a distance of 106 kilometers by road northeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz the asphalted highway Ruta 3 leads in a northeasterly direction 52 kilometers to Cotapata and from there as a gravel road over 35 kilometers to Coroico . Here the route 40 branches off to the southeast and after 22 kilometers it reaches Arapata and from there continues via Coripata to Puente Villa , where it meets the route 25 , which continues in a south-easterly direction to Inquisivi and Cochabamba .
population
The population of the village has fluctuated over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 2 005 | census |
| 2001 | 1 557 | census |
| 2012 | 1 984 (Santa Rosa de Lima 995 inhabitants, San José de Pery 989 inhabitants) | census |
Due to the historical population development in the Municipio Coripata, the Aymara population is predominant, 72.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Coripata - General Maps No. 21401
- Municipio Coripata - detailed map and population data (PDF; 594 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
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 3, 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 file; 11.63 MB)