Panduro (La Paz)
| Panduro | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 894 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3907 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1301-0900-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 30 ′ S , 67 ° 27 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
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 Caracollo climate diagram |
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Panduro is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Panduro is the fifth largest municipality in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sica Sica in the province of Aroma . The wide plain of the Bolivian highlands extends northwest of Panduro, and to the east of the place rises the Serranía de Sicasica , a north-south oriented mountain range between La Paz and Cochabamba , which rises to 4500 m.
geography
Panduro is located at an altitude of 3907 m on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region has a typical time of day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuation is more pronounced than the mean temperature fluctuation between the seasons.
The long-term average annual temperature is 8 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C in December (see Caracollo climate diagram). Nocturnal frost temperatures are possible in almost every season. The annual precipitation is low 400 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October and only from December to March there is significant precipitation of up to 100 mm in the monthly average. Due to the low rainfall, the sky is mostly clear and an intense blue color.
Transport network
Panduro is located at a distance of 161 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the asphalt road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 a further 148 kilometers south via Patacamaya and Sica Sica to Panduro . From there the road continues in a south-easterly direction to the departmental capitals Oruro , Potosí and Tarija and to Bermejo on the Argentine border.
population
The population of the village has increased by around two thirds in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 421 | census |
| 2001 | 508 | census |
| 2013 | 894 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Sica Sica 90.3 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; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Sica Sica - General Maps No. 21301
- Municipio Sica Sica - detailed map and population data (PDF; 648 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )