Canton of Chacoma
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| Basic data
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| Residents (state) | 648 pop (2001) | ||
| Post Code | 02-1305-03 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| height | 4000 m | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 13 ′ S , 67 ° 53 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Patacamaya | ||
| Central place | Chacoma | ||
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 Climate diagram Patacamaya |
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The canton of Chacoma is an administrative district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Chacoma is one of twelve cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Patacamaya in the province of Aroma and is located in the central eastern part of the district. It borders in the north on the canton of Chiarumani , in the north-west on the canton of Villa Concepción de Belén , in the south-west on the canton Patacamaya , and in the south-east on the canton Colchani .
The canton extends between 17 ° 11 '40 "and 17 ° 14' 20" south latitude and 67 ° 51 'and 67 ° 55' west latitude, it measures from north to south up to four kilometers and from west to east up to six kilometers. The canton consists of only one village ( localidad ), the scattered settlement Chacoma with 322 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the northern part of the canton.
geography
The canton of Chacoma is located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the fluctuations in mean daytime temperatures are more pronounced than the temperature fluctuations between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December (see climate diagram Patacamaya). The annual precipitation is 460 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to August and at 110 mm in January.
population
The population of the canton has increased by about a seventh in the last two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 662 | census |
| 2001 | 572 | census |
| 2012 | 648 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Patacamaya 83.2 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
structure
The canton of Chacom is not further divided into sub-cantons ( vicecantones ).
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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 (PDF file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Patacamaya region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.3 MB)
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250: 000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Patacamaya - General Maps No. 21305
- Municipio Patacamaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 380 kB)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) (Spanish)