Chama (Bolivia)
| Chama | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 472 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3942 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0806-0700-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 48 ′ S , 68 ° 35 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Comanche |
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Chama (also Ayllo Chama ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Chama is the central place of the canton Chama in the municipality Jesús de Machaca in the province Ingavi . Chama lies at an altitude of 3942 m forty kilometers south of Lake Titicaca on a right tributary of the Río Grande de Machaca , which flows over the Río Jacha Jahira to the Río Desaguadero . Chama is bounded to the northwest by a ridge that rises to over 4,700 m.
geography
Chama lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano . The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature is 7 ° C (see Comanche climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and just under 9 ° C in November / December. The mean annual precipitation is around 550 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to July and 100 to 150 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Chama is located at a distance of 85 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the asphalt national road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there Ruta 19 another 23 km to the southwest to Viacha . Here the unpaved Ruta 43 branches off in a south-westerly direction, which after another 39 kilometers reaches Chama and then leads via Nazacara , San Andrés de Machaca and Santiago de Machaca to Catacora on the border with Peru .
population
The population of the village has increased dramatically in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 54 | census |
| 2001 | 75 | census |
| 2012 | 472 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Jesús de Machaca 97.2 percent of the population 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 dated December 10, 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.
- ↑ 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 La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Jesús de Machaca - General Maps No. 20804
- Municipio Jesús de Machaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 311 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )