Huacanapi
| Huacanapi | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 328 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3986 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1301-0200-2002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 52 ′ S , 68 ° 2 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | San Pedro de Totora Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huayllamarca |
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Huacanapi is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Huacanapi is the central place of the canton of Huacanapi in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Pedro de Totora in the province of San Pedro de Totora . The place is located at an altitude of 3986 m on the western edge of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends in the Bolivian highlands in a north-west-south-east direction. The Río Nekhe Jahuira flows past Huacanapi in a southerly direction, which later becomes the Río Barras and then flows into the Salar de Coipasa .
geography
Huacanapi lies between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Occidental in the east in the dry climate of the Altiplano .
The mean annual precipitation is about 330 mm and falls 80 percent in the months of December to March (see Huayllamarca climate diagram). The annual average temperature is almost 8 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and around 10 ° C from November to March.
Transport network
Huacanapi is 144 kilometers west of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 31 leads west via La Joya , Lajma , Chuquichambi and Huayllamarca to Totora and on to Curahuara de Carangas , where it meets Ruta 4 towards Chile . Three kilometers before Totora, a dirt road branches off the Ruta 31 in a southerly direction and after 13 kilometers reaches Huacanapi .
population
The population of the place has increased several times over in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 53 | census |
| 2001 | 332 | census |
| 2012 | 328 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of San Pedro de Totora 97.0 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 February 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 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 Oruro 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio San Pedro de Totora - General Maps No. 41301
- Municipio San Pedro de Totora - detailed map and population data (PDF; 367 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )