Konani

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Konani
Basic data
Residents (state) 901 pop. (2012 census)
height 3781  m
Post Code 02-1301-0700-7001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 26 ′  S , 67 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 26 ′  S , 67 ° 31 ′  W
Konani (Bolivia)
Konani
Konani
politics
Department La Paz
province Provincial flavor
climate
Climate diagram Belén
Climate diagram Belén

Konani (also: Germán Busch ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Konani is the central place of the canton Germán Busch and fourth largest municipality of the municipality Sica Sica in the province Aroma . To the northwest of Konani extends the wide plain of the Bolivian highlands, and to the east of the place rises the Serranía de Sicasica , a north-south oriented mountain range between La Paz and Cochabamba , which rises to 4500 m.

geography

Konani lies at an altitude of 3781  m 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 fluctuation is greater during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature of the region is around 11 ° C, the monthly values ​​fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and 13 ° C in November / December (see Belén climate diagram). The annual precipitation is low 450 mm, in the arid period from April to October the monthly values ​​are below 25 mm, and only the months December to February show heavier precipitation between 80 and 115 mm.

Transport network

Konani is located at a distance of 145 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz, the paved national road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 south-east over 138 kilometers through Calamarca and Sica Sica to Konani . From there the road continues in a south-easterly direction to the departmental capitals Oruro , Potosí and Tarija and to Bermejo on the Argentine border.

In Konani the road to Quime branches off, which leads over the 4730 m high 'Tres-Cruces' pass of the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz .

population

The population of the village has increased by around two thirds in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 550 census
2001 809 census
2012 901 census

Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Sica Sica 90.3 percent of the population speak Aymara .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ INE social data. (PDF; 12.2 MB) Archived from the original on November 13, 2010 ; accessed on October 16, 2018 .

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