Huacuyo
| Huacuyo | |||
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 Lake Titicaca near Huacuyo |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 511 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3838 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0803-0300-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 26 ′ S , 68 ° 46 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huacullani |
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Huacuyo is a scattered settlement in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Huacuyo is the fourth largest settlement in the canton of Huacullani in the municipality of Tiahuanacu in the province of Ingavi . The village is located with its center at an altitude of 3838 m two kilometers away from the southern shore of Lake Titicaca and only a few kilometers from Tiahuanaco , the internationally known world cultural heritage - ruins from the pre-Inca culture .
geography
Huacuyo is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andean 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 , in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is more pronounced than that over the course of the year.
The annual average temperature in the Huacuyo region on Lake Titicaca is 8 ° C (see Huacullani climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months of May to August and just over 100 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Huacuyo is 99 kilometers west of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the asphalted national road Ruta 2 leads for thirteen kilometers to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 another 63 kilometers in a westerly direction to Tiawanacu . From there an unpaved road leads in a north-westerly direction to Pillapi San Agustín , crosses the coastal chain in a northerly direction and after twelve kilometers via Huacullani reaches the village of Huacuyo .
population
The population of the scattered agricultural settlement has decreased by about a third in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 776 | census |
| 2012 | 511 | census |
Due to the historical development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Tiahuanacu 95.7 percent of the population speak Aymara .
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2013 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 La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Tiahuanacu - detailed map and population data (PDF; 334 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Tiahuanacu - General Maps No. 20803
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )