Curva
| Curva | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1047 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3502 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1602-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 8 ′ S , 69 ° 1 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Bautista Saavedra Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Charazani |
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Curva is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Curva is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Curva in the province of Bautista Saavedra . The village is located on a mountain spur at an altitude of 3502 m between the Cordillera Muñecas in the south and the Cordillera Apolobamba in the north on one of the tributaries of the Río Mapiri , which drains to the Río Beni .
geography
Curva is located in the east of the Bolivian Altiplano on the edge of the Cordillera Central . 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 annual average temperature of Charazani is 15 ° C (see climate diagram Charazani) and fluctuates only slightly between a good 12 ° C in June / July and just under 17 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is around 750 mm, a four-month dry season from May to August with monthly values of less than 25 mm contrasts with a rainy summer from December to March, in which the monthly precipitation values are sometimes well above 100 mm.
Transport network
Curva is located at a distance of 264 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 2 leads seventy kilometers in a north-westerly direction to Huarina , from where the Ruta 16 branches off , which continues as a paved road in a south-westerly direction for 97 kilometers along Lake Titicaca to Escoma . From there the Ruta 16 continues as an unpaved road further north and after 87 kilometers reaches the provincial capital Charazani , via which one reaches Curva for another ten kilometers .
population
The population of the village has increased almost fourfold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 281 | census |
| 2001 | 523 | census |
| 2012 | 1,047 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Curva 80.4 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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 ( 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 Umanata region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- Relief map of the Sorata region 1: 250: 000 (PDF; 13.1 MB)
- Relief map of the Puno / Titicaca region 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.56 MB)
- Municipio Curva - General Maps No. 21602
- Municipio Curva - detailed map and population data (PDF; 549 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
