San José Alto
| San José Alto | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Localidad San José Alto | ||
| Residents (state) | 195 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3738 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1802-0470-1701 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 43 ′ S , 67 ° 45 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Gualberto Villarroel Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huayllamarca |
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San José Alto is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San José Alto is the largest municipality in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Papel Pampa in the province of Gualberto Villarroel . San José Alto is located at an altitude of 3738 m in an extensive hill country directly west of the north-south oriented ridge Serranía de Huayllamarca , which rises here to over 4,500 m.
geography
San José Alto 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 annual precipitation is about 330 mm and falls 80 percent in the months of December to March (see Huayllamarca climate diagram). The annual average temperature is just under +8 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate between +4 ° C in June / July and around +10 ° C from November to March.
Transport network
San José Alto is 230 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 and reaches Panduro after a total of 170 kilometers . From there, an unpaved road leads sixteen kilometers to the southwest to Eucaliptus , after another 36 kilometers it reaches the central town of Papel Pampa and continues for another eight kilometers in a north-easterly direction to San José Alto .
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a fifth in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 247 | census |
| 2012 | 195 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Papel Pampa 94.5 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
- Topographic map of the Eucaliptus region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.4 MB)
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Papel Pampa - detailed map and population data (PDF; 346 kB) ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )