Ayo Ayo
| Ayo Ayo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 698 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3894 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1303-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 6 ′ S , 68 ° 0 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Patacamaya |
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Ayo Ayo is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Ayo Ayo is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Ayo Ayo in the province of Aroma and is located at an altitude of 3894 m . Ayo Ayo is located on an up to 20 km wide north-south running flat section of the Bolivian Altiplano , right on the edge of the village rise the foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica , which rise here to almost 5,000 m.
geography
Ayo Ayo is located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region's climate is semi-humid and has a typical time-of-day climate, in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 9 ° C, the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December (see climate diagram Patacamaya). The annual precipitation is around 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Ayo Ayo is 83 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there 70 kilometers south the Ruta 1 to Ayo Ayo and on via Patacamaya to Caracollo , where the Ruta 1 continues to Oruro in the south and the Ruta 4 branches off to the east of Cochabamba .
population
The population of the village has increased by almost a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 596 | census |
| 2001 | 647 | census |
| 2012 | 698 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Ayo Ayo 92.6 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
In June 2004, the town of Ayo Ayo made headlines around the world when its mayor, Benjamin Altamirano, was kidnapped on the street in the center of La Paz after allegations of corruption and was found dead a little later in the main square of Ayo Ayo, tied to a stake and with clear traces of torture and burns. It remains to be seen whether this type of lynching "can be described as 'normal' for the Aymara people", as the Bolivian indigenous leader and MP Felipe Quispe claimed, or is not provided for in indigenous people's justice, like the indigenous leader of Ayo Ayo , Roberto Chino , says.
tourism
Ayo Ayo's tourist gem is the local church, a monument from the 16th century. The building, built in the style of the mestizo baroque and renaissance , houses relics in the form of wood carvings as well as chased gold and silver work from the time of the viceroyalty of Peru .
Sons and daughters of the village
The most famous citizen of Ayo Ayo is the freedom hero Julián Apaza (Tupaq Katari), Indian leader and alleged descendant of the Inca ruling class, who in 1781 besieged La Paz twice with an Indian army for a total of 184 days and inflicted heavy losses on the Spaniards, but ultimately captured was taken and tortured to death.
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 February 22, 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)
- ↑ drittewelt.de ( Memento from April 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Ayo Ayo - General Maps No. 21303
- Municipio Ayo Ayo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 422 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )