Calacachi
| Calacachi | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 502 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3966 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1303-0300-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 4 ′ S , 68 ° 9 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colquencha |
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Calacachi is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Calacachi is the largest village in the canton of Villa Carmen in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Ayo Ayo in the province of Aroma and is located at an altitude of 3966 m . Calacachi is located on a north-south flat section of the Bolivian Altiplano that is up to twenty kilometers wide , and the foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica rise fifteen kilometers east of the village and rise here to almost 5000 meters.
geography
Calacachi 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 has a distinctive time-of-day climate, in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the municipality is 10 ° C (see Colquencha climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and just under 12 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is around 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 125 mm in January.
Transport network
Calacachi is 82 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there 58 kilometers south the Ruta 1 to Tolar and on via Patacamaya to Caracollo , where the Ruta 1 continues to Oruro in the south and the Ruta 4 into Cochabamba branches off to the east . In Tolar, a dirt road branches off to the southwest from Ruta 1, crosses the railway line and after eleven kilometers reaches Calacachi.
population
The population of the village has increased almost fivefold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 109 | census |
| 2001 | 325 | census |
| 2012 | 502 | 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 .
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)
Web links
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 100,000 (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 )