Puerto Acosta
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 View of Puerto Acosta |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1359 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3841 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0401-0102-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 32 ′ S , 69 ° 15 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Eliodoro Camacho Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Puerto Acosta |
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Puerto Acosta is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puerto Acosta is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puerto Acosta and the administrative seat of the province Eliodoro Camacho , and is located on the right bank of the Río Huaycho, which flows into Lake Titicaca at Villapuni . The village is located at an altitude of 3841 m on the northeastern bank of Lake Titicaca, fifteen kilometers southeast of Huyacollo , which lies on the border with Peru .
geography
Puerto Acosta is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Real .
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 850 mm (see climate diagram Puerto Acosta). The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between almost 6 ° C in July and a good 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in June to August and a humidity period from December to March with values between 120 and 170 mm.
Transport network
Puerto Acosta is 185 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved road ' Ruta 2 ' leads 70 kilometers north to Huarina , from there Ruta 16 via Achacachi and Puerto Carabuco for a further 95 kilometers on largely unpaved roads to Puerto Acosta.
population
The population of the village has increased by around a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1 081 | census |
| 2001 | 1 123 | census |
| 2012 | 1 359 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Puerto Acosta 99.1 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
- Municipio Puerto Acosta - General Maps No. 20401
- Municipio Puerto Acosta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 473 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )