Malla (La Paz)
| Malla | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1438 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3815 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0904-0100-6003 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 2 ′ S , 67 ° 27 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Loayza Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Viloco |
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Malla is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Malla is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Malla in the province of Loayza . The village of Malla is located at an altitude of 3815 m in one of the eastern valleys of the Serranía de Sicasica near the Quimsa Cruz cordillera .
geography
Malla lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a typical daytime climate in which the temperature differences between day and night are greater than the mean temperature differences between the seasons.
The mean average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500 to 600 mm (see climate diagram Viloco), with a pronounced dry season from May to August with monthly values of less than 15 mm.
Transport network
Malla is located at a distance of 215 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 1 leads south via El Alto to the south. Twelve kilometers south of El Alto, a country road branches off to the southwest and follows the Río Cala Jahuira twenty kilometers upstream. From there, a dirt road branches off to the northeast and after another 35 kilometers reaches Sapahaqui . The piste follows the course of the Río Sapahaqui to the village of Caracato and further the Río Caracato north to Khola and from there another 75 kilometers in a south-easterly direction via Viloco to Malla .
population
The population of the village has more than tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 401 | census |
| 2001 | 875 | census |
| 2012 | 1 438 | census |
Due to the historical population development in the Municipio Malla, the Aymara population is predominant, 95.2 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 La Paz 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Malla - General Maps No. 20904
- Municipio Malla - detailed map and population data (PDF; 432 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )