Berenguela (Pando)
| Berenguela | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 19 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4154 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1901-0300-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 17 ′ S , 69 ° 13 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | José Manuel Pando Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Charaña |
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Berenguela is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Berenguela is the central place of the canton Berenguela in the district ( Bolivian Municipio ) Santiago de Machaca in the province of José Manuel Pando . The village is located at an altitude of 4154 m in the headwaters of the Río Berenguela , which flows over the Río Mauri to the Río Desaguadero and is thus connected to Lake Titicaca .
geography
Berenguela has a semi-arid climate, as there is insufficient rainfall for more than six months of the year for the plants to grow. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 8 ° C (see climate diagram Charaña), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between just under 5 ° C from June to July and just over 10 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is a low 300 mm, the monthly values are between under 10 mm in the months May to October and about 50 mm from December to March.
traffic
Berenguela is 175 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
The Ruta 2 highway leads from the La Paz basin to the El Alto plateau . From there, Ruta 19 leads in a south-westerly direction via Viacha , Caquiaviri and Achiri to Berenguela and from there a further 49 kilometers to Charaña in the border triangle Peru - Chile- Bolivia.
population
The population of the village has dropped to a fifth in the decade between the last two censuses :
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 102 | census |
| 2001 | 95 | census |
| 2012 | 19th | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Santiago de Machaca 89.5 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 dated February 11, 2015 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 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 2001 ( 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
- Raised relief map Berenguela 1: 50,000 Instituto Geográfico Militar Bolivia (PDF; 1.5 MB) (accessed April 8, 2017)
- Relief map of the Tatara region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10 MB)
- Municipio Santiago de Machaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 502 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Santiago de Machaca - General Maps No. 21901
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
