San Pedro de Curahuara
| San Pedro de Curahuara | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 472 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3897 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1801-0100-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 39 ′ S , 68 ° 3 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Gualberto Villarroel Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huayllamarca |
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San Pedro de Curahuara is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Pedro de Curahuara is the administrative seat of the province of Gualberto Villarroel and the central place of the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) San Pedro de Curahuara . The village is located at an altitude of 3897 m at the northeast end of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , a ridge about 100 kilometers long that extends on the Altiplano in the west of the city of Oruro in a north-west-south-east direction.
geography
San Pedro de Curahuara lies between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano . The region's climate is typical of the time of day , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the seasons.
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 Pedro de Curahuara is 160 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 , then Ruta 4 in a south-westerly direction to Cañaviri . From there, an unpaved road leads south via Umala to Chilahuala and there crosses the Río Desaguadero until it reaches San Pedro de Curahuara after sixty kilometers. The piste continues in a south-westerly direction to Totora , the administrative seat of the province of San Pedro de Totora in the Oruro department .
population
The population of the village has doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 238 | census |
| 2001 | 292 | census |
| 2012 | 472 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of San Pedro de Curahuara 96.8 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; 11.6 MB)
Web links
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio San Pedro - General Maps No. 21801
- Municipio San Pedro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 436 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )