Lagunitas (Alalay)
| Lagunitas | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 269 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3534 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1303-0270-2705 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 45 ′ S , 65 ° 40 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Mizque | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Vacas |
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Lagunitas is a town in the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Lagunitas is the largest town in the Ayapampa canton in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Alalay in the Mizque province . The village is located on a ridge of the Cochabamba cordillera at an altitude of 3534 m between the Río Pajcha and the Río Tucma , both of which flow into the Río Mizque near the town of Mizque .
geography
Lagunitas is located in the northwestern part of the Cordillera Oriental , the easternmost mountain range of the Bolivian high mountains. The climate of the region is characterized by a typical time of day climate , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 12 ° C (see Vacas climate diagram), temperatures in the winter months of June / July are just under 10 ° C and in November / December a little more than 14 ° C. The annual precipitation is 550 mm and reaches values of 100 to 120 mm in the summer months from December to February, while in the arid months from May to September hardly any precipitation falls.
Transport network
Lagunitas is 84 kilometers by road from Cochabamba , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cochabamba the paved road Ruta 7 leads in a south-easterly direction 41 kilometers to San Benito , from there a dirt road further south-east via Punata to Arani . From there, an unpaved road continues to the southeast and after 21 kilometers via Pocoata and Alalay reaches the village of Lagunitas .
population
The population of the village has increased in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no details | census |
| 2001 | 219 | census |
| 2012 | 269 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Alalay 99.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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 Cochabamba 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of Bolivia from 1: 2,000 GeoBolivia
- Overview map of the province of Mizque In: educa.com.bo (accessed April 10, 2017)
- Relief map of the Punata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.12 MB)
- Municipio Alalay - General Maps No. 31303
- Municipio Alalay - detailed map and population data (PDF; 360 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Cochabamba - Social data of the municipalities (PDF 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )