Santa Bárbara (Coripata)

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Santa Bárbara
Basic data
Residents (state) 292 pop. (2012 census)
height 1830  m
Post Code 02-1402-0101-0001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 16 ° 19 ′  S , 67 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 19 ′  S , 67 ° 37 ′  W
Santa Bárbara (Bolivia)
Santa Bárbara
Santa Bárbara
politics
Department La Paz
province Nor Yungas Province
climate
Coroico climate diagram
Coroico climate diagram

Santa Bárbara is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Santa Bárbara is neighboring to Coripata , the central place of the Municipio Coripata in the province of Nor Yungas . The village is located at an altitude of 1830  m on a ridge directly southwest of Coripata.

geography

Santa Bárbara is located in the transition area between the Altiplano and the Cordillera Real in the west and the foothills of the Amazon lowlands in the east. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.

The annual precipitation here in the subtropical Yungas is 1100 mm (see Coroico climate diagram) and has a clear dry season from May to August and a rainy season from December to February. The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 20 ° C and 25 ° C, during the day it is warm in summer and pleasantly cool at night.

Transport network

Santa Bárbara is located at a distance of 120 kilometers by road northeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.

From La Paz, the asphalted highway Ruta 3 leads north-east for 52 kilometers to Cotapata and from there another 35 kilometers to Coroico . Here the Ruta 40 branches off to the southeast and reaches Coripata after 32 kilometers . On the southwestern edge of Coripata, after a few hundred meters, a country road branches off in a westerly direction to Santa Gertrudis and after half a kilometer you reach Santa Bárbara .

population

The population of the village has almost tripled over the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 108 census
2012 292 census

Due to the historical population development in the Municipio Coripata, the Aymara population is predominant, 72.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

Individual evidence

  1. INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  2. INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2015 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  3. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF; 12.2 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo

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