Santa Ana (Los Andes)
| Santa Ana | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 528 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3930 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1201-0300-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 24 ′ S , 68 ° 22 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Santa Ana is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santa Ana is the fourth largest town in the canton of Patamanta in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pucarani in the province of Los Andes and is located between the metropolis of La Paz and the southeastern edge of Lake Titicaca . The village is located at an altitude of 3930 m on the Bolivian Altiplano .
geography
Santa Ana is located on the Bolivian plateau 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 temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see Batalla's climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Santa Ana is 34 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the Ruta 2 trunk road leads via El Alto and Villa Vilaque in a north-westerly direction to Santa Ana and from there via Patamanta , Batallas and Huarina to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca.
population
The number of inhabitants of the place has changed only insignificantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 505 | census |
| 2012 | 528 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Pucarani 96.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the region of La Paz North 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Pucarani - General Maps No. 21201
- Municipio Pucarani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 647 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )