Puerto Perez
| Puerto Perez | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 578 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3833 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1204-0100-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 17 ′ S , 68 ° 36 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Puerto Pérez is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Puerto Pérez is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puerto Pérez in the province of Los Andes and is located at an altitude of 3833 m on the shores of Lake Titicaca . To the southeast of Puerto Pérez, the wide plain of the Bolivian highlands extends beyond El Alto and La Paz , forty kilometers east of Puerto Pérez is the Cordillera Muñecas , which rises here with the Huayna Potosí to over 6,000 m.
geography
Puerto Pérez 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
Puerto Pérez is 69 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz, the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the asphalted highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and after a total of 61 kilometers reaches Batallas to the northwest . From here a dirt road branches off to the northwest and after another eight kilometers reaches Puerto Pérez and Lake Titicaca.
population
The population of the village has almost doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 311 | census |
| 2001 | 515 | census |
| 2012 | 578 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Puerto Pérez 97.8 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 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Batallas region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Pérez - General Maps No. 21204
- Municipio Puerto Pérez - detailed map and population data (PDF; 376 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )