Pucarani
| Pucarani | |||
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 Plaza Franz Tamayo in Pucarani |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1313 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3865 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1201-0101-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 24 ′ S , 68 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Pucarani is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pucarani is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pucarani and the administrative seat of the province Los Andes and is located on the right bank of a tributary to the Río Nurancana , which flows into the southeast section of Lake Titicaca . The village is located at an altitude of 3865 m, fifteen kilometers south-east of Lake Titicaca.
geography
Pucarani is located on the Bolivian Altiplano 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 year.
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
Pucarani lies at a distance of fifty 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 in a north-westerly direction for thirty kilometers to Villa Vilaque , from there a secondary road branches off to the northwest and after twenty kilometers reaches the village of Pucarani.
Directly south of Pucarani, south of the road in flat terrain, there is a 3.2-kilometer-long paved touring car race track .
population
The population of the place has almost doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 687 | census |
| 2001 | 840 | census |
| 2012 | 1 313 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Pucarani 96.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
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; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Pucarani - General Maps No. 21201
- Municipio Pucarani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 647 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )