Peñas (La Paz)
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 Church in Peñas |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 393 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3989 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1203-0200-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 14 ′ S , 68 ° 30 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Peñas is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Peñas is the central place of the canton Peñas in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Batallas in the province of Los Andes and is located at an altitude of 3989 m on the Bolivian Altiplano . The Lake Titicaca in the West is just 10 km, 30 km northeast of the village is the mountain range of the Cordillera Muñecas up to 6,000 m achieved that here peak heights.
geography
Peñas 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 fluctuation is more pronounced during the day than during the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see Batalla's climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Peñas is located at a distance of 58 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the Ruta 2 road leads via El Alto and Villa Vilaque in a north-westerly direction to Patamanta and Palcoco . Three kilometers after Palcoco, a dirt road branches off to the north and after twelve kilometers reaches Peñas .
population
The population of the place has changed slightly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 340 | census |
| 2001 | 439 | census |
| 2012 | 393 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Batallas 93.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
See also
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 (PDF; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Huarina region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.38 kB)
- Batallas region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Batallas - General Maps No. 21203
- Municipio Batallas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 497 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) (Spanish)