Parajaya

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Parajaya
Basic data
Residents (state) 25 pop. (2012 census)
height 4220  m
Post Code 04-0901-0700-1007
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 3 ′  S , 68 ° 52 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 3 ′  S , 68 ° 52 ′  W
Parajaya (Bolivia)
Parajaya
Parajaya
politics
Department Oruro
province Sabaya Province
climate
Climate diagram Tambo Quemado
Climate diagram Tambo Quemado

Parajaya (also: Parajalla ) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Parajaya is the central place of the canton Parajaya in the municipality Sabaya in the province Sabaya and is located directly on the border to the Región de Tarapacá ( Chile ). Parajaya is located at the mouth of the Río Lliscaya in the Río Todos Santos , the upper reaches of the Río Sabaya , which flows 113 kilometers downstream into the Salar de Coipasa salt lake . Parajaya is framed within a radius of twenty kilometers by the peaks of Cerro Pumiri (5484 m) and Isluga (5516 m) on the Chilean side and Cerro Curumaya (5484 m) and Cabaraya (5689 m) on the Bolivian side.

geography

Parajaya is located on the western edge of the Bolivian Altiplano on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Occidental . The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate, in which the average values ​​of the temperatures fluctuate more during the day than during the course of the seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is around 5 ° C (see climate diagram Tambo Quemado), the monthly values ​​fluctuate only slightly between 1 ° C in June / July and a good 6 ° C from November to March. The average annual precipitation is only about 200 mm, the monthly precipitation is below 10 mm from April to October and reaches its maximum in the months of December to March.

Transport network

Parajaya is located at a distance of 251 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.

From Oruro, the largely unpaved national road Ruta 12 leads 189 kilometers in a south-westerly direction via Ancaravi and Huachacalla to Sabaya and on to Pisiga on the Chilean border. In Sabaya, a dirt road branches off to the west and leads another 52 kilometers along the Río Sabaya via La Rivera and Todos Santos to Parajaya .

population

The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 15th census
2001 53 census
2012 25th census

Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Sabaya 62.9 percent of the population speak Aymara .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
  4. ↑ INE social data (PDF; 12.2 MB)

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