Cotapata (Sud Yungas)

Cotapata
Basic data
Residents (state)	308 pop. (2012 census)
height	883  m
Post Code	02-1105-0300-5001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	16 ° 0 ′  S , 67 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 0 ′  S , 67 ° 10 ′  W
Cotapata
politics
Department	La Paz
province	South Yungas Province
climate
Climate diagram La Asunta

Cotapata is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Cotapata is the central place of the canton Cotapata in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) La Asunta in the province of Sud Yungas . The village is located at an altitude of 883  m above the left bank of the Río Boopi , which forms from the Río de la Paz , which flows from La Paz from a south-westerly direction , and drains to the Río Beni .

geography

Cotapata is located on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Central between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Cocapata in the east.

The annual average temperature of the village is 23 ° C (see climate diagram La Asunta), the annual precipitation is about 1,300 mm. The region has a distinctive daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between a good 20 ° C in June / July and 25 ° C in November / December. La Asunta has a short dry season with monthly precipitation of 25 mm in the months of June and July, in the wet season the monthly values ​​reach up to 200 mm from December to February.

Infrastructure

Cotapata is located at a distance of 215 kilometers by road northeast of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 3 leads sixty kilometers eastwards over the La Cumbre pass to Unduavi , from where the Ruta 25 branches off , which continues as a dirt road in a south-easterly direction for seventy kilometers to Chulumani . From there an unpaved road leads over Tajma along the Río Solacama , Río Tamampaya and Río Boopi further north and after about sixty kilometers reaches La Asunta , from where it continues downstream along the Río Boopi via Cotapata to Puerto Rico .

population

The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	262	census
2001	457	census
2012	308	census

Due to the historical population development, the region has a relatively high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of La Asunta 59.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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.  
2. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2016 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.  
3. ↑ 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.  
4. ↑ 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

• Municipio La Asunta - General Maps No. 21105
• Municipio La Asunta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 841 kB) ( Spanish )
• Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )