Patacamaya
| Patacamaya | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 11,197 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 49 | ||
| height | 3801 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1305-0100-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 14 ′ S , 67 ° 55 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Patacamaya |
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Patacamaya is a small town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Patacamaya is the central place of the Municipio Patacamaya in the province of Aroma and is located at an altitude of 3801 m . Patacamaya is located on the left bank of the Río Kheto , a tributary to the Río Desaguadero , which it reaches at the village of Eucaliptus .
geography
Patacamaya is located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C, the annual precipitation is 460 mm (see climate diagram Patacamaya). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to August and 110 mm in January.
Transport network
Patacamaya is an important traffic junction in the northern part of the Bolivian Altiplano : Here the important national roads Ruta 1 and Ruta 4 intersect , and the railway connection between La Paz and Oruro runs through Patacamaya .
From Patacamaya you can reach the seat of government La Paz after 103 kilometers on Route 1 in a northbound direction and the city of Oruro via Route 1 in a southbound direction in 131 kilometers. To the west, the Ruta 4 leads past the highest mountain in Bolivia, the Sajama , and reaches Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border after 189 kilometers. And to the east, Ruta 1 and Ruta 4 lead over 277 kilometers to Cochabamba , the city of eternal spring.
population
The city's population has increased almost fivefold over the past five decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2,467 | census |
| 1992 | 5 950 | census |
| 2001 | 8 414 | census |
| 2012 | 11 197 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Patacamaya 83.2 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population
- ^ 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 March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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
- Relief map of the Patacamaya region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.3 MB)
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250: 000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Patacamaya - General Maps No. 21305
- Municipio Patacamaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 380 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )