Copancara
| Copancara | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 183 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3839 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0204-1300-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 15 ′ S , 68 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Omasuyos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Copancara (also Centro Copancara ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Copancara is the central place of the Cantón Copancara in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Huarina in the province of Omasuyos and is located at an altitude of 3839 m seven kilometers northwest of the city of Batallas on the shores of Lake Titicaca . To the southeast of Copancara, the wide plain of the Bolivian highlands extends beyond El Alto and La Paz , thirty kilometers east of Copancara is the Cordillera Muñecas , which rises here with the Huayna Potosí to over 6000 m .
geography
Copancara 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 temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the mean monthly values fluctuate only insignificantly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see Batalla's climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Copancara lies at a distance of 68 kilometers by road northeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the asphalt road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and further north-west via Villa Vilaque and Palcoco to Batallas . From here the route 2 continues via Copancara to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca, at Huarina the route 16 branches off to the north, which leads along the Peruvian border into the Bolivian lowlands.
population
The population of the village has decreased significantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 552 | census |
| 2001 | 535 | census |
| 2012 | 183 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Achacachi - to which the Copancara region belonged until July 2005 - 94.1 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 November 29, 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 Achacachi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 671 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Achacachi - General Maps No. 20201
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )