Jesús de Machaca (La Paz)
| Jesus de Machaca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 604 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3868 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0806-0200-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 45 ′ S , 68 ° 48 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Comanche |
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Jesús de Machaca is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Jesús de Machaca is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Jesús de Machaca in the province of Ingavi . Jesús de Machaca is located at an altitude of 3868 m, twenty kilometers south of Lake Titicaca on the western edge of the Río Desaguadero , halfway between Nazacara and Desaguadero . To the northeast of Jesús runs a long ridge that rises to a height of 4,830 m.
geography
Jesús de Machaca lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano . The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature is 7 ° C (see Comanche climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and just under 9 ° C in November / December. The mean annual precipitation is around 550 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to July and 100 to 150 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Jesús de Machaca is 114 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz the paved road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there the Ruta 19 another 23 kilometers to the southwest to Viacha . Here the unpaved Ruta 43 branches off in a south-westerly direction, from which a country road branches off after 43 kilometers in a westerly direction and after another 24 kilometers reaches Jesús de Machaca . From there the road continues via Corpa to Desaguadero on the south bank of Lake Titicaca.
population
The population of the village has almost tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 211 | census |
| 2001 | 396 | census |
| 2012 | 604 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Jesús de Machaca 97.2 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 La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Jesús de Machaca - General Maps No. 20806
- Municipio Jesús de Machaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 311 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )