Santiago de Huata
Santiago de Huata | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 457 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3850 m | |
Post Code | 02-0205-0302-0001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 16 ° 3 ′ S , 68 ° 49 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | La Paz | |
province | Omasuyos Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Achacachi |
Santiago de Huata (also called " Bello Rincón " in colonial times ) is a town on the Altiplano of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Santiago de Huata is located on the river Bello at an altitude of 3850 m on the Achacachi peninsula on the southeast bank of Lake Titicaca at the foot of Cerro Qhapiki , which rises northeast of the village to an altitude of 4,333 m. The village is located in the province of Omasuyos and is the central place of the municipality of the same name Santiago de Huata , which was separated from the municipality of Achacachi by law of January 20, 2009 .
geography
Santiago de Huata is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian highlands in front of the Cordillera Muñecas , which in turn is a section of the Cordillera Central . The climate in the Santiago de Huata area is derived from the altitude on the Altiplano and the proximity to the large body of water of Lake Titicaca, which mitigates temperature fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 11 ° C (see Achacachi climate diagram), with the monthly average in the coldest month (July) at 8 ° C only slightly deviating from the warmest months (November to March) at 12 ° C. The climate is arid from June to August with only sporadic rainfall, and it is humid in the summer months, especially from December to March, with monthly rainfall of more than 100 mm. The annual precipitation is around 600 mm.
Transport network
Santiago de Huata is 112 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the Ruta 2 road leads via El Alto in a north-westerly direction to Huarina and from there on over the road from Tiquina to Copacabana . In Huarina, the Route 16 branches off to the northwest and after 23 kilometers reaches the town of Achacachi . From there a country road leads in a westerly direction for a further 16 kilometers to Santiago de Huata .
population
The population of the village has decreased slightly in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 538 | census |
2001 | 576 | census |
2012 | 457 | census |
In terms of ethnicity, the majority of the inhabitants are Aymara ; in the last census of 2001, 94.1 percent of the population in the municipality of Achacachi spoke the Aymara language, while only 66.5 percent of the inhabitants spoke Spanish .
59.4 percent of the population had no access to electricity , 83.4 percent lived without sanitary facilities (2001) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Santiago de Huata: Historia de una región del Titicaca ( Memento of the original from December 27, 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. ( Spanish ; PDF; 211 kB)
- ^ 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250.500 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Santiago de Huata - General Maps No. 20201
- Municipio Santiago de Huata - detailed map and population data (PDF; 671 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )