Pazña
| Pazña | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1407 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3720 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0602-0100-1009 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 36 ′ S , 66 ° 55 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Poopó Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Oruro climate diagram |
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Pazña is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pazña is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pazña in the province of Poopó . The village is situated at an altitude of 3720 m at the mouth of the Río Antequera in the eastern part of the Poopó Lake , an approximately 1,300 km² large salt lake south of the city of Oruro .
geography
Pazña is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Azanaques , a section of the Cordillera Central .
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 10 ° C (see climate diagram Oruro), the annual precipitation is 400 mm. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 6 ° C in July and 14 ° C in November / December. The monthly precipitation is less than 10 mm in the months May to August and only falls from December to March in a significant amount of 60 to 85 mm.
traffic
Pazña is 80 kilometers by road south of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.
The paved road Ruta 1 runs through Pazña . It crosses the highlands of Bolivia in a north-south direction and begins in Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca . From there it leads via El Alto and Oruro to Pazña and further south via Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the Bolivian- Argentine border.
In Pazña an unpaved road leads east into the Antequera Valley to the villages of Avicaya , Totoral , Antequera and Campamento Bolívar .
population
The population of the place has been subject to strong fluctuations in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1464 | census |
| 2001 | 1090 | census |
| 2013 | 1407 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Pazña 66.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Cañadón Peñas
Cañadón Peñas ( cañadón = field in the valley that is flooded when it rains; peña = rock, mountain ) is the name for a development project in the canton of Peñas that has been supported by German World Hunger Aid since around 2005 as one of fifteen " Millennium Villages " . In joint workshops, the impoverished inhabitants of the Peñas Valley, together with experts from Welthungerhilfe, have drawn up a five-year plan, the improvements of which are to be implemented in four areas: nutrition, the economy, education, and a say for women. These goals are to be achieved through improvements in animal husbandry, the establishment of small cheese factories and the establishment of schools with lunch. With this project, Welthungerhilfe is not only supporting the 400 families in the Peñas Valley, but also the 13,000 rural residents of the Pazña and Antequera region, whose schools are involved in the project.
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 Oruro 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
- ↑ Welthungerhilfe ( Memento of the original from January 9, 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 Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPEG; 8.22 MB)
- Municipio Pazña - General Maps No. 40602
- Municipio Pazña - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
