Machacamarca (Pucarani)
| Machacamarca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 588 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3890 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1201-0180-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 22 ′ S , 68 ° 27 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Machacamarca is a scattered settlement in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Machacamarca is the second largest municipality in the canton of Pucarani in the municipality of Pucarani in the province of Los Andes on the left, southern bank of the Río Sehuenca , a direct tributary to Lake Titicaca . The village is located at an altitude of 3890 m on the Bolivian Altiplano , fifteen kilometers southeast of Lake Titicaca.
geography
Machacamarca is located on the Bolivian plateau 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 fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see Batalla's climate diagram). 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
Machacamarca is 48 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the Ruta 2 road leads via El Alto and Villa Vilaque in a north-westerly direction to Patamanta and Palcoco and from there on via Batallas and Huarina to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca.
In Palcoco, before crossing the Río Sehuenca, a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction from Ruta 2 and reaches the center of Machacamarca after five kilometers.
population
The population of the place has increased slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 548 | census |
| 2012 | 588 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Pucarani 96.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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
- Relief map of the region of La Paz North 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Batallas - General Maps No. 21201
- Municipio Pucarani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 497 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )