Santa Ana de Mosetenes
| Santa Ana de Mosetenes | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 721 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 411 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1104-0105-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 31 ′ S , 67 ° 26 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | South Yungas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Palos Blancos |
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Santa Ana de Mosetenes (formerly: Santa Ana de Huachi ; also: Santa Ana del Alto Beni ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santa Ana de Mosetenes is located in the municipality of Palos Blancos in the Sud Yungas province . The village is located at an altitude of 411 m on the right, eastern bank of the Alto Beni , about ten kilometers northwest of the Alto Beni bridge near Sapecho .
geography
Santa Ana de Mosetenes is located in the Bolivian Yungas east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real . 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 mean average temperature in the region is 28 ° C, the annual precipitation is almost 1600 mm (see climate diagram Palos Blancos). The monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 25 ° C in June / July and 29 ° C from October to March. The monthly precipitation is less than 50 mm in the months of June and July and more than 200 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Santa Ana de Mosetenes is located at a distance of 237 kilometers by road northeast of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the Ruta 3 trunk road leads via Coroico and Caranavi in a north-easterly direction to the bridge over the Río Beni, from there five kilometers further upstream to Sapecho. The Ruta 3 reaches the Río Mamoré after 372 kilometers near Trinidad .
Directly behind the Alto Beni bridge, a dirt road branches off to the northwest from the Ruta 3 , accompanies the Alto Beni downstream and ends after thirteen kilometers in Santa Ana de Mosetenes. The village is then directly connected to the villages on the left bank of the river via a ferry.
population
The population of the village has doubled in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 375 | census |
| 2012 | 721 | census |
Since a significant part of the region's population immigrated from the Altiplano in the 1960s and 1970s , the region has a significant proportion of the Aymara population; in the Municipio Palos Blancos, 33.8 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; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Palos Blancos region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.02 MB)
- Paquia region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 12.99 MB)
- Municipio Palos Blancos - General Maps No. 21104
- Municipio Palos Blancos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.35 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )