Santiago de Huata

Santiago de Huata
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 Coordinates: 16 ° 3 ′ S , 68 ° 49 ′ W
	Santiago de Huata
	Santiago de Huata
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
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) .