Challapampa
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 Children in Ch'allapampa |
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Ch'allapampa | ||
| Residents (state) | 177 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3815 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1701-0300-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 0 ′ S , 69 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Manco Kapac Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Copacabana |
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Challapampa is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Challapampa is a scattered settlement and is located on the Isla del Sol ( Sun Island ) in the province of Manco Kapac in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Copacabana . The village is located in the southern part of the 3,810 m high Lake Titicaca at an altitude of 3815 m on the northeast coast of the sunny island . The core of the village lies on a strip of land that is only a hundred meters wide, which connects one of the offshore peninsulas with the Isla del Sol.
geography
Challapampa 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 has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 8 ° C (see Copacabana climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only insignificantly between almost 6 ° C in June / July and 10 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is around 700 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of June and July and 150 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Challapampa is 170 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved national road Ruta 2 leads in a north-westerly direction via Huarina to San Pablo de Tiquina on Lake Titicaca, where the road from Tiquina is crossed by boat and after a total of 147 kilometers you reach the country town of Copacabana . From Copacabana there are regular excursion boats to Isla del Sol.
population
The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 107 | census |
| 2001 | 435 | census |
| 2012 | 177 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Copacabana 94.3 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 8, 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; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Copacabana region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 608 kB)
- Municipio Copacabana - detailed map and population data (PDF; 408 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Copacabana - General Maps No. 21701
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )