Curva Pucará
| Curva Pucará | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 190 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3880 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1202-0601-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 36 ′ S , 68 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Viacha |
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Curva Pucará is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Curva Pucará is the central place of the canton Curva Pucará in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Laja in the province of Los Andes and is located at an altitude of 3880 m . Cantapa is on a curve of the Ruta 1 highway between the metropolis of El Alto and the border town of Desaguadero . Cantapa is framed by the two rivers, Río Chamaca Jahuira and Río Ninantaya, which flow into the Río Guaquira, which flows 46 kilometers downstream under the name Río Tiwanaku in the Gulf of Tarato into Lake Titicaca .
geography
Curva Pucará 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's climate is typical of the time of day , with average temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.
The mean annual temperature of Viacha is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 600 mm (see Viacha climate diagram). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C from November to February. The months May to August are arid with monthly precipitation of less than 15 mm, in the southern summer months of January and February monthly precipitation of more than 100 mm is measured.
Transport network
Curva Pucará is 61 kilometers by road west of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and another five kilometers in a north-westerly direction. Then the Ruta 1 branches off to the west and after another twenty kilometers reaches Laja . After a further 21 kilometers in a westerly direction, Ruta 1 crosses the Río Guaquira in the direction of Tiawanacu near Curva Pucará . Here a country road branches off in a south-easterly direction from Route 1 and after another nine kilometers reaches the village of Cantapa .
population
The population of the village has more than tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 54 | census |
| 2001 | 94 | census |
| 2012 | 190 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Laja 97.2 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 January 12, 2015 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 Puerto Guaquí region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.3 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Laja - General Maps No. 21202
- Municipio Laja - detailed map and population data (PDF; 467 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )