Belén (aroma)
Belén | ||
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Basic data | ||
Full name | Colpapucho Belén | |
Residents (state) | 620 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3777 m | |
Post Code | 02-1301-0500-1001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 17 ° 24 ′ S , 67 ° 34 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | La Paz | |
province | Provincial flavor | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Belén |
Belén (also: Colpapucho Belén or Kollpa Kuchu ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Belén is the central place of the canton Colpapucho Belén in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sica Sica in the province of Aroma and is located at an altitude of 3777 m . To the north-west of Belén extends the wide plain of the Bolivian highlands, and to the east of the place rises the Serranía de Sicasica , a north-south oriented mountain range between La Paz and Cochabamba , which rises to more than 4500 m.
geography
Belén 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 fluctuation is greater during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 11 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and 13 ° C in November / December (see Belén climate diagram). The annual precipitation is low 450 mm, in the arid period from April to October the monthly values are below 25 mm, and only the months December to February show heavier precipitation between 80 and 115 mm.
Transport network
Belén is 144 kilometers by road in a southeast direction from La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the asphalted highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there 131 kilometers south the Ruta 1 via Sica Sica to Belén . From here the road continues in a south-easterly direction to the department capitals Oruro , Potosí and Tarija and to Bermejo on the Argentine border.
population
The population of the village has increased by more than two thirds in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 351 | census |
2001 | 520 | census |
2012 | 620 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Sica Sica 90.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
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 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet 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)
Web links
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Sica Sica - General Maps No. 21301
- Municipio Sica Sica - detailed map and population data (PDF; 648 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )