Puerto aroma
| Puerto aroma | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 232 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3798 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1803-0300-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 28 ′ S , 68 ° 10 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Gualberto Villarroel Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Callapa climate diagram |
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Puerto Aroma (also: Puerto Jaruma ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puerto Aroma is the central place of the canton Aroma and the largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Chacarilla in the province of Gualberto Villarroel . The village is located at an altitude of 3798 m on the left bank of the Río Desaguadero , which connects Lake Titicaca with Lake Poopó .
geography
Puerto Aroma 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 climate of the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the mean fluctuation of day and night temperatures is more pronounced than that of the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is 8 to 9 ° C (see Callapa climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 5 ° C in July and a good 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is almost 400 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of May to August and 100 mm in December.
Transport network
Puerto Aroma is 145 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 2 leads to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as an asphalt road to Patacamaya . From there the Ruta 4 leads over seventeen kilometers to Cañaviri and another eight kilometers in a south-westerly direction to an east-west running stratum , which here has a height of 3950 m. From the edge of this layer, an unpaved road leads south to Puerto Aroma .
population
The population of the village has almost doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 129 | census |
| 2001 | 205 | census |
| 2012 | 232 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Chacarilla 97.0 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
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 6.8 MB)
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Chacarilla - General Maps No. 20305
- Municipio Chacarilla - detailed map and population data (PDF; 354 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )