Chacón (Trinidad Pampa)
| Chacón | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 439 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1703 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1402-0300-3002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 17 ′ S , 67 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Nor Yungas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Coroico climate diagram |
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Chacón is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Chacón is the neighboring town of Trinidad Pampa , the second largest town in the Arapata canton in the Coripata municipality in the Nor Yungas province . The village is located at an altitude of 1703 m on the left, western bank of the Río Santa Elena, which flows in a north-easterly direction a few hundred meters downstream into the Río Peri, a left tributary of the Río Tamampaya .
geography
Chacón is located in the transition area between the Altiplano and the Cordillera Real in the west and the foothills of the Amazon lowlands in the east.
The annual precipitation here in the subtropical Yungas is 1100 mm (see Coroico climate diagram) and has a clear dry season from May to August and a rainy season from December to February. The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 20 ° C and 25 ° C, during the day it is warm in summer and pleasantly cool at night.
Transport network
Chacón is 118 kilometers by road northeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the asphalted national road Ruta 3 leads in a northeasterly direction 52 kilometers to Cotapata and from there as a gravel road over 35 kilometers to Coroico . Here the Ruta 40 branches off to the southeast and after 31 kilometers crosses the Trinidad Pampa . One kilometer behind Trinidad Pampa, a country road branches off in a southerly direction to Chacón, two kilometers away .
population
The population of the village has increased by around a third over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 323 | census |
| 2012 | 439 | census |
Due to the historical population development in the Municipio Coripata, the Aymara population is predominant, 72.3 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 dated February 3, 2015 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 file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Relief map of the Chulumani region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 13.7 MB)
- Municipio Coripata - General Maps No. 21401
- Municipio Coripata - detailed map and population data (PDF; 594 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )