Charaña
| Charaña | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1177 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4067 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0305-0105-5016 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 36 ′ S , 69 ° 27 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Pacajes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Charaña |
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Charaña is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Charaña is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Charaña in the province of Pacajes . The village is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the Chilean border at an altitude of 4067 m on one of the tributaries of the Río Mauri , which flows into the Río Desaguadero . Ninety kilometers southeast of Charaña rises the Nevado Sajama , at 6,542 m the highest mountain in Bolivia.
geography
Charaña has a semi-arid climate, as the rainfall for more than six months is insufficient for the plants to grow. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.
The mean annual temperature of Charaña is 8.3 ° C, the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between just under 5 ° C from June to July and just over 10 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is a low 300 mm, the monthly values are between under 10 mm in the months May to October and about 50 mm from December to March.
Transport network
Charaña is located at a distance of 223 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 , from there as an unpaved road via Caquiaviri and Achiri to Charaña. In addition, the railway line runs through Charaña from La Paz via Charaña and the Chilean border town of Visviri to the Chilean port city of Arica .
population
The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 125 | census |
| 2001 | 817 | census |
| 2012 | 1 177 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Charaña 83.9 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 from September 24, 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.
- ↑ INE social data Potosí 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2011 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. (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Region Charaña - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.09 MB)
- Relief map of the Tatara region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10 MB)
- Municipio Charaña - General Maps No. 20305
- Municipio Charaña - detailed map and population data (PDF; 692 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
