Lacaya
Lacaya | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 231 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3830 m | |
Post Code | 02-1201-0600-9001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 16 ° 27 ′ S , 68 ° 40 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | La Paz | |
province | Los Andes Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Batallas |
Lacaya (also Lakaya ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Lacaya is the central place of the canton Lacaya in the municipality of Pucarani in the province of Los Andes . The village is located at an altitude of 3830 m three kilometers south-east of Lake Titicaca , from here the wide plain of the Bolivian highlands extends to the south-east beyond El Alto and Calamarca .
geography
Lacaya lies on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is semi-humid and a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is 9 ° C (see Batalla's climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December. 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.
Transport network
Lacaya is 74 kilometers by road west of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and another five kilometers in a north-westerly direction. Then the Ruta 1 branches off to the southwest and leads via Laja to Tambillo . From there you can reach Catavi via a side street in a north-westerly direction after twelve kilometers and after another ten kilometers Lacaya .
population
The population of the village has decreased slightly over the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 245 | census |
2012 | 231 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Pucarani 97.2 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
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 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Topographic map of the Batallas region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Pucarani - General Maps No. 21201
- Municipio Pucarani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 647 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )