San Pedro de Tiquina
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 View of San Pedro de Tiquina and the Strait of Tiquina |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 694 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3846 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1702-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 13 ′ S , 68 ° 51 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Manco Kapac Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Copacabana |
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San Pedro de Tiquina is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Pedro de Tiquina is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Pedro de Tiquina in the province of Manco Kapac . The village is located at an altitude of 3846 m on the southwest bank of the 800 m wide road from Tiquina , which connects the north and south of Lake Titicaca .
geography
San Pedro de Tiquina 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 region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 8 ° C (see Copacabana climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only insignificantly between almost 6 ° C in June / July and 10 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is around 700 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of June and July and 150 mm in January and February.
Transport network
San Pedro de Tiquina is 107 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 2 leads in a north-westerly direction via Huarina to San Pablo de Tiquina , crosses the road from Tiquina to San Pedro de Tiquina and continues for forty kilometers to Copacabana and from there another eight kilometers to Khasani on the Peruvian Border.
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 874 | census |
| 2001 | 839 | census |
| 2012 | 694 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of San Pedro de Tiquina 92.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
economy
San Pedro is the most important base of the Bolivian Navy, which since the Saltpeter War of 1879 to 1884 with Chile no longer has direct access to the Pacific Ocean. The base in San Pedro is therefore the base for the exercises of the Bolivian fleet on Lake Titicaca.
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; 12.2 MB)
- ↑ Dry exercises on Lake Titicaca in FAZ from June 23, 2014, page 3
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250.500 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio San Pedro - General Maps No. 21702
- Municipio San Pedro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 316 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )