Palma Pampas
| Palma Pampas | |||
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 Yungas in Bolivia |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 484 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1629 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1101-0401-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 21 ′ S , 67 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | South Yungas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Chulumani |
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Palma Pampa (also: Palmar Pampa ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Palma Pampa is the fifth largest town in the canton of Huancané and is located in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Chulumani in the province of Sud Yungas . The village is located at an altitude of 1629 m a few kilometers east of the Río Tamampaya and directly north of the Río Jalaka .
geography
Palma Pampa is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate diagram Chulumani), the mean monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 1150 mm, the monthly precipitation is between about 20 mm in the months of June and July and more than 150 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Palma Pampa is located 132 kilometers by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 3 leads north-east for 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off in a south-easterly direction along the Río Unduavi and reaches Huancané after 64 kilometers. At the eastern exit of Huancané, a dirt road branches off in a northerly direction, which crosses the Río Jalaka after five kilometers and after another three kilometers reaches Palma Pampa , from where the road continues via Naranjani and Colpar to Río Blanco .
population
The population of the village has increased fivefold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 84 | census |
| 2001 | 305 | census |
| 2012 | 484 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Chulumani 49.9 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; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Relief map of the Chulumani region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 13.7 MB)
- Municipio Chulumani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 361 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Chulumani - General Maps No. 21101
- La Paz Department - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 11.63 MB)