Santa Rosa de Mapiri
| Santa Rosa de Mapiri | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents | 2336 pop. | ||
| height | 1025 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0607-0300-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 19 ′ S , 68 ° 20 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Larecaja Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Mapiri |
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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
Santa Rosa is the second largest settlement of the Municipio Mapiri in the province of Larecaja . The village is located at an altitude of 1025 m on the right bank of the Río Consata , which is fed with its tributaries from the glaciers of Illampú and is later called Río Mapiri .
geography
Santa Rosa is located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in the lowlands of the Río Beni, one of the most important rivers of the Amazon lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is a good 23 ° C (see climate diagram), the annual precipitation is almost 1400 mm. The region has a less pronounced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 21 ° C in June and July and just under 28 ° C in November and December, and the day and night temperatures also show only slight fluctuations. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of June and July and over 200 mm in December.
Transport network
Santa Rosa is 345 kilometers by road north of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the partially paved road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction 160 kilometers via Cotapata to Caranavi , from there branches off the unpaved Ruta 26 , which reaches Guanay after seventy kilometers and leads to Mapiri for another 98 kilometers . From Mapiri there is an unpaved road connection of seventeen kilometers to Santa Rosa , which continues to the city of Sorata on Illampú , 11 hours away .
population
The population of the village has increased fivefold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 474 | census |
| 2001 | 1 433 | census |
| 2012 | 2,336 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Mapiri 43.5 percent of the population speak Quechua .
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
- Municipio Mapiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 754 kB) (Spanish)
- La Paz Department - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 11.63 MB)