Batallas
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 Section of the Universidad Católica Boliviana in Batallas |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2257 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 175 | ||
| height | 3852 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1203-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 18 ′ S , 68 ° 32 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Batallas is a country town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Batallas is the central place of the Municipio Batallas in the province of Los Andes and is located at an altitude of 3852 m , eight kilometers southeast of Puerto Pérez on the shores of Lake Titicaca . To the southeast of Batallas, the wide plain of the Bolivian highlands extends beyond El Alto and La Paz , thirty kilometers east of Batallas is the range of the Cordillera Muñecas , which rises here with the Huayna Potosí to over 6000 meters.
geography
Batallas 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 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
Batallas is located 61 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the asphalt national road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and further north-west via Vilaque and Palcoco to Batallas . From here the route 2 continues to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca, at Huarina the route 16 branches off to the north, which leads along the Peruvian border into the Bolivian lowlands.
population
The city's population has increased by around a third over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1,769 | census |
| 2001 | 1,966 | census |
| 2012 | 2,257 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Batallas 93.9 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 from February 25, 2016 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
- Relief map of the Huarina region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.38 kB)
- Batallas region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Batallas - General Maps No. 21203
- Municipio Batallas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 497 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )