Taypiplaya Canton
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| Residents (state) | 3164 pop (2001) | ||
| height | 1300 m | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 58 ′ S , 67 ° 25 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Caranavi Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Caranavi | ||
| Central place | Taypiplaya | ||
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The canton of Taypiplaya is an administrative district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Taypiplaya is one of twenty-two cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Caranavi in the province of Caranavi and is located in the southern part of the district. It is bordered to the north by the canton of Caranavi , to the northwest by the canton of Santa Ana de Caranavi , to the west by the canton of Chojña , to the south by the province of Nor Yungas , to the east by the province of Sud Yungas , and to the northeast by the canton of Rosario Entre Ríos .
The canton extends between 15 ° 52 'and 16 ° 02' south latitude and 67 ° 18 'and 67 ° 32' west latitude, it measures up to seventeen kilometers from north to south and up to twenty-five kilometers from west to east. The canton consists of 39 localities ( localidades ), the central place is Taypiplaya with 1,783 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the central western part of the canton.
geography
The canton of Taypiplaya is embedded in a side valley of the Río Coroico between the eastern Voranden chains in the transition area between the Andean Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands. The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature is 25.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly over the course of the year between 23 ° C in June / July and 27 ° C in November / December (see Caranavi climate chart). The annual precipitation reaches a height of almost 1500 mm, and apart from a short dry season in June / July the climate is humid all year round with monthly precipitation of over 200 mm from December to February.
population
The population of the canton is in the decade between the last two censuses virtually unchanged:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 3 142 | census |
| 2001 | 3 164 | census |
| 2012 | . | no data yet |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Caranavi 57.8% of the population speak the Aymara language .
structure
The canton of Caranavi is divided into the following twenty-two sub-cantons ( vicecantones ):
- Colonia Barrio Nuevo - 2 towns - 51 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Colonia Belen - 1 village - 34 inhabitants
- Colonia Bello Horizonte - 1 village - 86 inhabitants
- Colonia Broncesal - 1 village - 42 inhabitants
- Colonia Central Ingavi Primera - 1 village - 188 inhabitants
- Colonia Central Pacajes - 5 localities -263 inhabitants
- Colonia Condor Llimphi - 1 village - 110 inhabitants
- Colonia Flor De Mayo - 3 localities - 195 inhabitants
- Colonia Gran Poder - 3 villages - 88 inhabitants
- Colonia Huayna Potosi - 1 village - 57 inhabitants
- Colonia Ingavi Segundo - 1 village - 96 inhabitants
- Colonia Patacamaya - 1 village - 44 inhabitants
- Colonia Sector Rio Negro - 1 village - 33 inhabitants
- Colonia Tres Estrellas - 1 village - 45 inhabitants
- Colonia Tupac Katari - 1 village - 134 inhabitants
- Colonia Villa Asuncion - 3 villages - 96 inhabitants
- Colonia Villa Los Andes - 1 village - 112 inhabitants
- Colonia Villa Victoria - 3 localities - 299 inhabitants
- Cooperativa Alto San Silverio - 5 localities - 213 inhabitants
- Cooperativa Miraflores - 1 village - 86 inhabitants
- Taypiplaya - 1 village - 868 inhabitants
- Segundo Villa Victoria - 1 village - 24 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística
Web links
- Municipio Caranavi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.17 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Caranavi - Politics, Population and Economy ( Spanish )
- Municipio Caranavi - General Maps No. 22001 ( Spanish )
- Department of La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )