Corapata
| Corapata | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 640 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3875 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1201-1100-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 26 ′ S , 68 ° 22 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Corapata is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Corapata is a central place in the canton of Villa Rosario de Corapata in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pucarani in the province of Los Andes. The place is located at an altitude of 3875 m on the right northwest bank of the Río Vilaque , thirty kilometers southeast of Lake Titicaca .
geography
Corapata is located on the Bolivian plateau 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 temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is 8.8 ° C (see Batalla's climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is almost 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 20 mm from May to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Corapata is located 35 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the highway Ruta 2 leads via El Alto in a north-westerly direction to Villa Vilaque and from there on via Batallas and Huarina to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca. To the southwest, a dirt road branches off in Vilaque, which leads to Chojña Collo via Corapata, five kilometers away .
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 191 | census |
| 2012 | 640 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Pucarani 96.7 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 4, 2016 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 La Paz 2001 ( 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 region of La Paz North 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Pucarani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 647 kB) ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )