Santa Rosa (La Asunta)
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 Yungas in Bolivia |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 672 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1472 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1105-0700-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 17 ′ S , 67 ° 18 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | South Yungas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Chulumani |
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Santa Rosa is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Besides La Calzada, Santa Rosa is the only larger town in the canton of La Calzada in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) La Asunta in the Sud Yungas province . The village is located at an altitude of 1472 m on the northern slope above the Río Tamampaya .
geography
Santa Rosa is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate diagram Chulumani), the mean monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 1150 mm, the monthly precipitation is between about 20 mm in the months of June and July and more than 150 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Santa Rosa is 164 kilometers by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the paved road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction for 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off in a south-easterly direction along the Río Unduavi and after 70 kilometers it reaches Chulumani . From there, a dirt road leads twenty kilometers via Tajma to Pasto Pata . From Pasto Pata a road leads ten kilometers down a stream valley into the valley of the Río Tamampaya, overcoming a difference of 750 meters in altitude. The road crosses the river and runs another ten miles along its left, northern bank. There a side road winds five kilometers up the slope and then reaches Santa Rosa via La Calzada.
population
The population of the place has increased significantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | no data available at the moment | census |
| 2001 | 556 | census |
| 2012 | 672 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of La Asunta 59.3 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 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of Bolivia from 1: 2,000 GeoBolivia
- Municipio Chulumani - General Maps No. 21101
- Municipio Chulumani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 361 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )