Caquiaviri
| Caquiaviri | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 497 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3966 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0302-0104-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 1 ′ S , 68 ° 36 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Pacajes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Comanche |
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Caquiaviri is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Caquiaviri is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Caquiaviri in the province of Pacajes . The village is located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an altitude of 3966 m on one of the tributaries to the Río Desaguadero , about fifty kilometers south of Lake Titicaca .
geography
Caquiaviri lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano . The region has the typical daytime climate of the high mountains near the equator, in which the mean temperature fluctuations over the course of the day are more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C (see Comanche climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and just under 9 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is around 560 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months of May to August and over 100 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Caquiaviri is 100 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 2 leads to El Alto , from there Ruta 19 in a south-westerly direction as an asphalt road to Viacha and on as an unpaved road to Caquiaviri . The Ruta 19 then leads via Achiri to Charaña on the Chilean border.
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 192 | census |
| 2001 | 388 | census |
| 2012 | 497 | census |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of the Aymara on. The Caquiaviri canton, which belongs to Caquiaviri, had a population of 2,643 in 2001, while the Caquiaviri municipality had 11,901.
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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Caquiaviri - General Maps No. 20302
- Municipio Caquiaviri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )