Cañamina

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Cañamina
Basic data
Residents (state) 535 pop. (2012 census)
height 1394  m
Post Code 02-1003-0300-1001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 16 ° 38 ′  S , 67 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 38 ′  S , 67 ° 15 ′  W
Cañamina (Bolivia)
Cañamina
Cañamina
politics
Department La Paz
province Inquisivi Province
climate
Climate diagram Cajuata
Climate diagram Cajuata

Cañamina is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Cañamina is the fourth largest town in the canton of Circuata in the municipality of Cajuata in the province of Inquisivi and is located at an altitude of 1394  m on the Río Miguillas , a right tributary of the Río de la Paz , which comes from the capital La Paz past the Illimani in a north-easterly direction flows towards the Río Beni .

geography

Cañamina is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.

The mean average temperature of the region is 23 ° C (see Miguilla's climate diagram), the mean monthly values ​​fluctuate only insignificantly between 20 ° C in June / July and just under 25 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is about 1150 mm, the monthly precipitation is between almost 20 mm in the months of June and July and more than 150 mm from December to February.

Transport network

Cañamina is located 212 kilometers by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 3 leads north-easterly 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off in a south-east direction and leads via Chulumani , Ocobaya , Irupana and La Plazuela into the valley of the Río de la Paz, where it Via Miguillas and Lujmani along the Río Miguillas you reach Cañamina after 152 kilometers . From there it continues via the villages of Circuata , Inquisivi and Independencia (Ayopaya) to Vinto , where it meets the Ruta 4 to Cochabamba .

population

The population of the village has increased by about a seventh in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 468 census
2012 535 census

Individual evidence

  1. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  2. INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  3. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo

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