Santo Domingo de Machaca
| Santo Domingo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Santo Domingo de Machaca | ||
| Residents (state) | 504 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3939 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0806-0400-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 51 ′ S , 68 ° 38 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Comanche |
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Santo Domingo de Machaca is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santo Domingo is the central place in the canton of Santo Domingo de Machaca in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Jesús de Machaca in the province of Ingavi . Santo Domingo is located at an altitude of 3939 m about forty kilometers south of Lake Titicaca on one of the left tributaries to the Río Grande de Machaca , which flows over the Río Jacha Jahira to the Río Desaguadero . To the south, Santo Domingo is bordered by a ridge that rises to 4,150 m.
geography
Santo Domingo lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano . The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature is 7 ° C (see Comanche climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and just under 9 ° C in November / December. The mean annual precipitation is around 550 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to July and 100 to 150 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Santo Domingo is located 96 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz the asphalted highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there the Ruta 19 another 23 km to the southwest to Viacha . Here the unpaved Ruta 43 branches off in a south-westerly direction, which reaches Santo Domingo via Chama after another 50 kilometers and then leads via Nazacara , San Andrés de Machaca and Santiago de Machaca to Catacora on the border with Peru .
population
The population of the village has increased threefold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 161 | census |
| 2001 | 80 | census |
| 2012 | 504 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Jesús de Machaca 97.2 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; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Jesús de Machaca - General Maps No. 20804
- Municipio Jesús de Machaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 311 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )