Santiago de Machaca
| Santiago de Machaca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 9 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3887 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1901-0100-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 4 ′ S , 69 ° 12 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | José Manuel Pando Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Nazacara |
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Santiago de Machaca is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santiago de Machaca is the administrative seat of the province of José Manuel Pando and the central place of the district ( Bolivian :: Municipio ) Santiago de Machaca . The village is located at an altitude of 3886 m on the right bank of the Río Ingenio , which flows to the Río Desaguadero and is thus connected to Lake Titicaca .
geography
Santiago de Machaca is located sixty kilometers southwest of Lake Titicaca between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano with an average annual rainfall of around 500 mm (see Nazacara climate diagram). The region has a distinct daytime climate, with mean temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 5 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to August and 100 to 125 mm in January and February .
traffic
Santiago de Machaca is located 151 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the highway Ruta 19 leads in a south-westerly direction 35 kilometers to Viacha , from there the Ruta 43 via San Andrés de Machaca to Santiago de Machaca and further south-west to the Peruvian border.
population
The population of the village has decreased drastically in the past two decades according to the data of the census of 2012, whereby the numerical value from 2012 should be questioned:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 616 | census |
| 2001 | 819 | census |
| 2012 | 9 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Santiago de Machaca 89.5 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 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santiago de Machaca region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.4 MB)
- Relief map of the Tatara region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10 MB)
- Municipio Santiago de Machaca - General Maps No. 21901
- Municipio Santiago de Machaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 502 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
