Puchucollo Alto
| Puchucollo Alto | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2461 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 163 | ||
| Post Code | 02-1202-0171-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 33 ′ S , 68 ° 15 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Viacha |
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Puchucollo Alto is a country town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puchucollo Alto is the most populous village in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Laja in the province of Los Andes . The place is the central place of District 2 of the Municipio Laja and is located on the western edge of the El Alto metropolitan area .
geography
Puchucollo Alto 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's climate is typical of the time of day , with average temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.
The mean annual temperature of Viacha is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 600 mm (see Viacha climate diagram). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C from November to February. The months May to August are arid with monthly precipitation of less than 15 mm, in the southern summer months of January and February monthly precipitation of more than 100 mm is measured.
population
The locality as an independent municipality has only recently emerged due to the western expansion of the city of El Alto, until the census of 2012 the statistics only show the village of Puchukullo Bajo:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | not noted | census |
| 2001 | not noted | census |
| 2012 | 2461 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Puerto Pérez 97.2 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
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.
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Bolivia inicia en Puchucollo obras de agua potable In: iagua ( Spanish )
- Relief map of the La Paz South region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Laja - General Maps No. 21202
- Municipio Laja - detailed map and population data (PDF; 467 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )