Pampas Aullagas
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 Church of Pampa Aullagas |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1074 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3703 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0802-0100-7008 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 12 ′ S , 67 ° 4 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Ladislao Cabrera Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Pampa Aullagas |
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Pampa Aullagas is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pampa Aullagas is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pampa Aullagas in the province of Ladislao Cabrera . The village is located at an altitude of 3703 m directly west of an island mountain , which rises about six kilometers south of Lake Poopó from the alluvial plain of the lake surroundings and is possibly the remainder of a volcanic crater.
The round shape of the Inselberg and the ring-shaped arrangement of cultivated areas around the mountain have given rise to speculation in the past that Pampa Aullagas could possibly be the remains of the sunken Atlantis .
geography
Pampa Aullagas is located south of Lake Poopó on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Cordillera Azanaques , which is part of the Cordillera Central mountain range . The climate is typical of the time of day , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the mean fluctuations between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate diagram Pampa Aullagas) and fluctuates between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in the summer months from November to March. The annual precipitation is less than 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to November with monthly precipitation under 15 mm, and a maximum of 75 mm in January.
Transport network
Pampa Aullagas is located 179 kilometers by road south of Oruro , the capital of the department.
The Ruta 1 road leads south from Oruro and reaches the town of Poopó after 53 kilometers and the town of Challapata after another 63 kilometers . From here, the Ruta leads 30 kilometers south via Santiago de Huari . After crossing a river, a dirt road turns south-west and after 19 kilometers leads to Santuario de Quillacas and from there further south-west to Salinas de Garcí Mendoza and the salt lake Salar de Uyuni . In Santuario de Quillacas a dirt road branches off in a north-westerly direction and reaches Pampa Aullagas after fourteen kilometers.
population
The town's population has more than doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 464 | census |
| 2001 | 525 | census |
| 2012 | 1 074 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Pampa Aullagas 81.2 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 Departamento Oruro (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Rio Mulato region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.12 MB)
- Municipio Papmpa Aullagas - General Maps No. 40802
- Municipio Pampa Aullagas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 355 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
- Pampa Aullagas - Legend of Atlantis ( English )