Pucuro Grande
| Pucuro Grande | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 466 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3840 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0205-0303-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 3 ′ S , 68 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Omasuyos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Achacachi |
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Pucuro Grande is a town on the Altiplano of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Pucuro Grande is the second largest town in the municipality of Santiago de Huata in the province of Omasuyos in the La Paz department . The village is located at an altitude of 3840 m on the Achacachi peninsula on the south shore of Lake Titicaca , directly west of Cerro Sampachi, which rises to 4082 meters.
geography
Pucuro Grande is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian highlands in front of the Cordillera Muñecas , which in turn is a section of the Cordillera Central . The climate in the region is derived from the altitude on the Altiplano and the proximity to the large water surface of Lake Titicaca, which mitigates the temperature fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 11 ° C (see Achacachi climate diagram), with the monthly average in the coldest month (July) at 8 ° C only slightly deviating from the warmest months (November to March) at 12 ° C. The climate is arid from June to August with only sporadic rainfall, and it is humid in the summer months, especially from December to March, with monthly rainfall of more than 100 mm. The annual precipitation is around 600 mm.
Transport network
Pucuro Grande is 112 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the national road Ruta 2 leads via El Alto in a north-westerly direction to Huarina and from there on over the road from Tiquina to Copacabana . In Huarina, the Route 16 branches off to the northwest and after 23 kilometers reaches the town of Achacachi . From there a country road leads in a westerly direction for another 14 kilometers to Pucuro Grande and on to Santiago de Huata .
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 432 | census |
| 2012 | 466 | census |
In terms of ethnicity, the majority of the inhabitants are Aymara , in the 2001 census in the municipality of Achacachi (to which the village still belonged at that time) 94.1 percent of the population spoke the Aymara language, while only 66.5 percent of the inhabitants spoke the mastered spanish language .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Relief map of the Santiago de Huata region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.63 kB)
- Municipio Achacachi - General Maps No. 20201
- Municipio Achacachi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 671 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )