Calacoto
| Calacoto | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 337 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3822 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0303-0104-6002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 17 ′ S , 68 ° 38 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Pacajes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Callapa climate diagram |
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Calacoto is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Calacoto is a central place in the municipality of Calacoto in the province of Pacajes . The village is located at an altitude of 3822 m on the left northern bank of the Río Desaguadero , about 75 kilometers as the crow flies southeast of Lake Titicaca .
geography
Calacoto 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's climate is typical of the time of day , in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the seasonal temperature fluctuations.
The mean annual temperature of the region is 8 to 9 ° C (see Callapa climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 5 ° C in June / July and a good 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is around 400 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 25 mm from April to October and only reaches a value of 100 mm in January.
Transport network
Calacoto is located at a distance of 157 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the national road Ruta 2 leads to El Alto , from there the Ruta 19 in a south-westerly direction via Viacha to Caquiaviri and on to Charaña on the Chilean border. From Caquiaviri an unpaved road leads over thirty kilometers in a south-easterly direction to Coro Coro and from there another country road leads 26 kilometers to the south-west to Calacoto .
population
The population of the village has increased by half in the two decades between the last three published censuses :
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 219 | census |
| 2001 | 279 | census |
| 2012 | 337 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Calacoto 93.1 percent of the population speak Aymara .
See also
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 November 29, 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 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 Callapa - General Maps No. 20303
- Municipio Calacoto - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.02 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )