Canton of Thola Khollu
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| Residents (state) | 223 pop (2001) | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| height | 4300 m | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 15 ′ S , 69 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | José Manuel Pando Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Catacora | ||
| Central place | Thola Khollu | ||
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 Climate diagram Charaña |
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The canton of Thola Khollu is an administrative district in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Thola Khollu is one of four cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Catacora in the province of José Manuel Pando and is located in the central western part of the district. It is bordered to the northeast by the canton of Catacora , to the west and south by the Republic of Peru , and to the northeast by the canton of Pojo Pajchiri .
The canton extends between 17 ° 11 'and 17 ° 18' 30 "south latitude and 69 ° 30 'and 69 ° 68' 30" west latitude, it measures from north to south up to fourteen kilometers and from west to east up to twelve kilometers. The canton consists of nine localities ( localidades ), the central place is Thola Khollu with 32 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the central part of the canton.
geography
The canton of Thola Khollu is located southwest of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Occidental , which here rises to around 5000 m. The climate of the region is semi-arid and a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation during the day is more pronounced than during the seasonal course.
The mean annual temperature of the canton is around 8 ° C (see climate diagram Charaña), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 5 ° C from June to July and 10 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is only a low 300 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months May to October and around 50 mm from December to March.
population
The population of the canton is in the decade between the last two censuses risen to more than double:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 101 | census |
| 2001 | 223 | census |
| 2012 | . | no data yet |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of the Aymara on, 91.4 percent of the inhabitants of catacora municipality speak Aymara .
structure
The canton of Thola Khollu is not further divided into sub-cantons ( vicecantones ), it comprises the following localities:
- Estancia Chipa - 48 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Estancia Chojñoco - 16 residents
- Estancia Jiska Llumavi - 4 residents
- Estancia Jutuni Alto - 28 residents
- Estancia Lipichi - 4 residents
- Estancia Puqui Suntina - 22 inhabitants
- Estancia Thola Khollu - 59 inhabitants
- Estancia Viscachani - 14 residents
- Kelani - 28 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
Web links
- Municipio Catacora - detailed map and population data (PDF; 337 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Catacora - Politics, Population and Economy ( Spanish )
- Municipio Catacora - General Maps No. 21902 ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )