Guanay
| Guanay | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 4165 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 106 | ||
| height | 420 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0602-0102-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 30 ′ S , 67 ° 53 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Larecaja Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Caranavi climate diagram |
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Guanay is a country town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Guanay is the central place of the canton Guanay in the municipality Guanay in the province Larecaja . The village is located on the right bank of the Río Mapiri at an altitude of 420 m near the mouth of the Río Tipuani , which flows from the northern slope of the Illampú to the northeast. Both rivers join a few kilometers downstream with the Río Coroico and then form the Río Kaka , which flows into the Río Beni at Puerto Pando .
geography
Guanay is located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in the lowlands of the Río Beni, one of the most important rivers of the Amazon lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 26 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 1450 mm (see Caranavi climate diagram). The region does not show a pronounced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 23 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from November to January, and the day and night temperatures also show only slight fluctuations. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of June and July and over 200 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Guanay is 230 kilometers by road north of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the partially paved national road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction 160 kilometers via Cotapata to Caranavi , from there branches off the unpaved Ruta 26 , which reaches Guanay after 70 kilometers and continues to Mapiri and Apolo .
population
The population of the village has changed only insignificantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 3 886 | census |
| 2001 | 3 890 | census |
| 2012 | 4 165 | census |
Due to historical immigration, the region has a not insignificant proportion of the Aymara population, in the municipality of Guanay 32.0 percent of the population speak Aymara and only 14.7 percent speak Quechua .
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 7, 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; 11.6 MB)
Web links
- Placer mining operations and modifications of the physical chemical nature of the waters of the Rio Kaka drainage basin (1989) ( English ) (471 kB; PDF)
- Relief map of the Sorata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 12.81 MB)
- Municipio Guanay - General Maps No. 20602
- Municipio Guanay - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.91 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )