Pauca (Colquiri)
| Pauca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 217 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3728 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1004-0800-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 32 ′ S , 66 ° 51 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Inquisivi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colquiri |
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Pauca is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pauca is the central place of the canton of Pauca in the municipality of Colquiri in the province of Inquisivi . The village is located at an altitude of 3728 m on the left, northern bank of the Río Khala Parani, which forms the border between the province of Inquisivi in the department of La Paz and the province of Tapacarí in the department of Cochabamba .
geography
Pauca lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands 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 year.
The annual average temperature of the Pauca region is 7 ° C (see Colquiri climate diagram), the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 3 ° C in June and July and 9 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 100 to 120 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Pauca is located at a distance of 360 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 1 leads in a south-easterly direction 300 kilometers via Patacamaya and Sica Sica to Caracollo , and from there Ruta 4 to the east for another 30 kilometers to Lequepalca . Five kilometers after Lequepalca, at the mouth of the Río Janho Kkota near Thola Pampa / Aranjuez, an unpaved road branches off north to Ancocota , in the next right-hand bend of Ruta 4 is the village of Huayllamarca . Here, on the left side of Ruta 4, an unpaved country road branches off in a north-easterly direction, climbs for the first eight kilometers to an altitude of 4600 m and reaches Pauca after 22 kilometers.
population
The town's population has decreased by around forty percent over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 350 | census |
| 2012 | 217 | census |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of the Aymara on, 82.9 percent of the inhabitants of the municipality colquiri speak Aymara .
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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Oruro-Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Relief map of the Bolívar region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Municipio Colquiri - General Maps No. 21004
- Municipio Colquiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 588 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )