Desaguadero (Bolivia)
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 Border crossing in Desaguadero with Peru |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 4065 pop. (2012 update) | ||
| rank | Rank 109 | ||
| height | 3827 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0804-0100-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 34 ′ S , 69 ° 2 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Desaguadero climate diagram |
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Desaguadero is a country town in the La Paz department , part of which is located in the South American Andean state of Bolivia and part of it in neighboring Peru .
Location in the vicinity
Desaguadero is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Desaguadero in the province of Ingavi . The city is located at an altitude of 3827 m in the northern part of the Bolivian Altiplano plateau on the border between Bolivia and Peru. The city is divided into a Bolivian and a Peruvian half by the Río Desaguadero , border river and the only outflow of Lake Titicaca , with the Bolivian Desaguadero east of the Desaguadero outflow.
geography
Desaguadero is located between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the temperature differences during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature is almost 8 ° C (see climate diagram Desaguadero), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C from November to March. The mean annual precipitation is about 670 mm and falls above all in the months of December to March with more than 100 mm per month, from May to August there is a dry season with monthly precipitation below 15 mm.
Transport network
Desaguadero is located 109 kilometers by road west of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz the paved road Ruta 2 leads thirteen kilometers west to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 over 96 kilometers southwest via Laja , Tiawanacu and Guaqui to Desaguadero .
In 1880 Desaguadero was the first Bolivian city next to Puerto Pérez to be connected to La Paz by a telegraph line.
Desaguadero is an important stopover on the interoceanic axis between the Pacific and the Atlantic , from here the connection runs to Puerto Suárez in the southeastern Bolivian lowlands on the border with Brazil .
Until the 1980s, vehicles from the Peruvian to the Bolivian bank were still transported by boat over the Río Desaguadero , today an international bridge connects the divided border town.
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1 586 | census |
| 2001 | 2 219 | census |
| 2012 | 4065 | census |
Due to the historical population structure, the region has a significant proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Desaguadero 84.8 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 December 10, 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 Desaguadero region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 608 kB)
- Municipio Desaguadero - General Maps No. 20804
- Municipio Desaguadero - detailed map and population data (PDF; 311 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )