Calamarca
| Calamarca | |||
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 La Fiesta in Calamarca |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1417 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4053 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1304-0100-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 54 ′ S , 68 ° 7 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Comanche |
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Calamarca is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Calamarca is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Calamarca in the province of Aroma and is located at an altitude of 4053 m . Calamarca is located on a 20 km wide north-south flat section of the Bolivian Altiplano , directly to the east of the village rise the foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica , which rise here to almost 5,000 m.
geography
Calamarca lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano with a typical time-of-day climate , in which the mean daytime temperatures are subject to greater fluctuations than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 9 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 12 ° C in December (see Comanche climate diagram). The mean annual precipitation is about 560 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months May to August and just over 100 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Calamarca is 59 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 the Ruta 1 another 47 kilometers south to Calamarca and on via Patacamaya to Caracollo , where the Ruta 1 continues to Oruro in the south and the Ruta 4 branches off to the east of Cochabamba .
population
The city's population has doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 701 | census |
| 2001 | 942 | census |
| 2012 | 1 417 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Collana 95.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
tourism
The local tourist gem is the church of Calamarca, a monument from the 16th century. The building, built in the style of the mestizo baroque and renaissance , houses relics in the form of wood carvings as well as chased gold and silver work from the time of the viceroyalty of Peru .
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 June 10, 2015 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 file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz South region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Calamarca - General Maps No. 21304
- Municipio Calamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 463 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )