Huancané (Batallas)
| Huancané | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 374 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3842 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1203-0800-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 16 ′ S , 68 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Huancané is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Huancané is the central place in the canton of Huancané in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Batallas in the province of Los Andes and is located at an altitude of 3842 m one kilometer southeast of the town of Copancara on the shores of Lake Titicaca . To the southeast of Huancané, the vast plain of the Bolivian highlands extends beyond El Alto and La Paz , thirty kilometers east of Huancané is the Cordillera Muñecas , which rises here with the Huayna Potosí to over 6,000 meters.
geography
Huancané lies 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 has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see Batalla's climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Huancané is located 67 kilometers by road northeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the asphalt road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and further north-west via Villa Vilaque and Palcoco to Batallas . From here the Ruta 2 continues via Huancané to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca, at Huarina the Ruta 16 branches off to the north, which leads along the Peruvian border into the Bolivian lowlands.
population
The population of the village has changed only insignificantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 389 | census |
| 2001 | 381 | census |
| 2012 | 374 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Batallas 93.9 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 November 29, 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 file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Batallas region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Batallas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 497 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Batallas - General Maps No. 21203
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )