San Antonio de Senkata
| San Antonio de Senkata | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1339 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3945 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1304-0400-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 48 ′ S , 68 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram El Alto |
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San Antonio (also: San Antonio de Senkata ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Antonio is a central place in the canton of San Antonio de Senkata and is located in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Calamarca in the province of Aroma at an altitude of 3945 m . To the north and south of San Antonio extends the wide plain of the Bolivian highlands, ten kilometers east of the village rise the first crossbars of the ridge of the Serranía de Sicasica .
geography
San Antonio 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 mean average temperature of the region is 9 to 10 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm (see climate diagram El Alto). The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.
Transport network
San Antonio is 45 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the asphalted highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 another 32 kilometers south to San Antonio and on via Calamarca and Patacamaya to Oruro . In San Antonio, a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction, which leads to the villages of Ichuraya Grande and Uncallamaya .
population
The population of the village has increased by more than two thirds in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 807 | census |
| 2001 | 1 031 | census |
| 2012 | 1 339 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Calamarca 95.7 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 South region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Calamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 463 kB) ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )