La Joya (Bolivia)
| La Joya | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1481 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3736 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0102-0200-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 47 ′ S , 67 ° 30 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Province of Cercado | ||
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 Oruro climate diagram |
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La Joya is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
La Joya is the central place of the canton La Joya in the municipality Caracollo in the province of Cercado . The village of La Joya is located at an altitude of 3736 m on the right bank of the Río Desaguadero , which in the Bolivian highlands connects Lake Titicaca in the north with Lake Poopó in the south.
geography
La Joya is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 11 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 400 mm (see Oruro climate diagram). The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 6 ° C in June / July and 13-14 ° C in November / December. The monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of May and August and around 80 mm from January to February.
Infrastructure
La Joya is located 54 kilometers by road northwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the paved national road Ruta 1 leads north towards Caracollo and La Paz . Five kilometers behind Oruro, a dirt road branches off to the northwest and after 44 kilometers it crosses the Río Desaguadero. The road leads on a straight path after five kilometers to La Joya , while a three-kilometer cul-de-sac branches off directly behind the bridge in a southerly direction to the neighboring town of Chuquiña .
population
The population of the village has increased only slightly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 221 | census |
| 2001 | 1 817 | census |
| 2012 | 1 481 | census |
Due to the historically grown population structures in La Joya Aymara -Bevölkerung prevalent in the municipality Caracollo talk 72.2 percent of the population Aymara .
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 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Topographic map of the Eucaliptus region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.4 MB)
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Caracollo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 695 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Caracollo - General Maps No. 40102
- Departamento Oruro - Social data (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
- Turning Gold Into Human Capital ( English )