Punata
| Punata | |||
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 May 18th Square and the Church of San Juan Bautista |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 19,559 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 33 | ||
| height | 2730 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1401-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 33 ′ S , 65 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Punata Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Punata is a small town in the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Punata is the seat of the administration of the eponymous province of Punata and the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Punata on the 490 km² fertile plateau of the Valle Alto . The village is located at an altitude of 2730 m about ten kilometers from the edge of the Cordillera Oriental , which rises to over 3,600 m east of Punata and 4,100 m north of Punata.
geography
Punata lies in the transition area between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 18 ° C (see climate diagram Cochabamba) and fluctuates only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90–110 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Punata is 47 kilometers by road southeast of Cochabamba , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 leads in a south-easterly direction 41 kilometers to San Benito , from there a dirt road over six kilometers further south-east to Punata. Punata is connected to Cochabamba by a railway line, which leads eight kilometers beyond Punata to Arani on the edge of the Cordillera.
population
The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 12 758 | census |
| 2001 | 14 742 | census |
| 2012 | 19 559 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Punata 92.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Punata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.12 MB)
- Municipio Punata - General Maps No. 31401
- Municipio Punata - detailed map and population data (PDF; 241 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )