Canton of Huancané (Batallas)
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| Residents (state) | 1128 pop (2001) | ||
| height | 3850 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 17 ′ S , 68 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Batallas | ||
| Central place | Huancané | ||
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 Climate diagram Batallas |
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The canton of Huancané is an administrative district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Huancané is one of seven cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Municipio Batallas in the province of Los Andes and is located in the central western part of the district. It borders in the north on the municipality Huarina , in the northwest on Lake Titicaca , in the west on the municipality Puerto Pérez , in the south and southeast on the canton Batallas , and in the northeast on the canton Karhuisa .
The canton extends between 16 ° 15 'and 16 ° 19' south latitude and 68 ° 33 'and 68 ° 35' 30 "west latitude, it measures up to seven kilometers from north to south and up to four kilometers from west to east The canton consists of four localities ( localidades ), the central place is Huancané with 374 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the northern part of the canton.
geography
The canton of Huancané is located 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.
population
The population of the canton is in the decade between the last two censuses risen only slightly:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1,095 | census |
| 2001 | 1,128 | census |
| 2012 | . | no data yet |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Batallas 93.9% of the population speak the Aymara language .
structure
The canton of Huancané is divided into three sub-cantons ( vicecantones ):
- Comunidad Huancané - 1 village - 381 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Comunidad Igachi - 2 localities - 555 inhabitants
- Comunidad Batallas - 1 village - 192 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 11.6 MB)
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística
Web links
- Batallas region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Municipio Batallas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 497 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Batallas - Politics, Population and Economy ( Spanish )
- Municipio Batallas - General Maps No. 21203 ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )