Catacora (Pando)
| Catacora | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Catacora Salida | ||
| Residents (state) | 548 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4268 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1902-0470-7002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 10 ′ S , 69 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | José Manuel Pando Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Charaña |
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Catacora (also: Catacora Salida ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Catacora is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Catacora in the province of José Manuel Pando . The village is located at an altitude of 4268 m near the Peruvian border in the headwaters of the tributaries of the Río Mauri , which flows south of Lake Titicaca into the Río Desaguadero .
geography
Catacora is located southwest of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Occidental , which here rises to around 5000 m. The climate of the region is semi-arid and a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation during the day is more pronounced than during the seasonal course.
The mean annual temperature of Catacora is around 8 ° C (see climate diagram Charaña), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 5 ° C from June to July and 10 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is only a low 300 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months May to October and around 50 mm from December to March.
Transport network
Catacora is 188 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the trunk road Ruta 19 leads in a south-westerly direction 35 kilometers to Viacha , from there the Ruta 43 via San Andrés de Machaca and Santiago de Machaca to Catacora and on to Hito IV on the Peruvian border.
population
The population of the village has doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 269 | census |
| 2001 | 529 | census |
| 2012 | 548 | census |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of the Aymara on, 91.4 percent of the inhabitants of catacora municipality speak Aymara .
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 December 21, 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Santiago de Machaca region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.4 MB)
- Relief map of the Tatara region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10 MB)
- Municipio Catacora - General Maps No. 21902
- Municipio Catacora - detailed map and population data (PDF; 337 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
