San Andrés de Machaca (La Paz)
| San Andrés de Machaca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 268 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3948 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0805-0300-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 57 ′ S , 68 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Nazacara |
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San Andrés de Machaca is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
San Andrés de Machaca is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Andrés de Machaca in the province of Ingavi . San Andrés de Machaca is located at an altitude of 3948 m in the wide plain of the Río Desaguadero , 45 kilometers south of Lake Titicaca .
geography
San Andrés de Machaca lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano with an average annual rainfall of around 500 mm (see Nazacara climate diagram). The region has a distinct daytime climate, with mean temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 5 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to August and 100 to 125 mm in January and February .
Transport network
San Andrés de Machaca is located at a distance of 136 kilometers by road southwest of the capital of the department, La Paz .
From La Paz the paved road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there the Ruta 19 another 23 kilometers to the southwest to Viacha . Here the unpaved Ruta 43 branches off in a south-westerly direction and reaches San Andrés de Machaca via Nazacara after 89 kilometers . The road then continues via Santiago de Machaca to Hito IV on the Peruvian border.
population
The population of the village has almost doubled in the decade between the last two published censuses . Detailed data from the current census from 2012 are not yet available:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 102 | census |
| 2001 | 191 | census |
| 2012 | 268 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of San Andrés 94.4 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 file; 11.6 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio San Andrés de Machaca - General Maps No. 20805
- Municipio San Andrés de Machaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 576 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )