Sorejaya
Sorejaya | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 1222 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3500 m | |
Post Code | 02-0605-0200-5001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 15 ° 49 ′ S , 68 ° 46 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | La Paz | |
province | Larecaja Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Sorata |
Sorejaya is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Sorejaya is the most populous place in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Combaya in the province of Larecaja . The village is located at an altitude of 3500 m on a plateau above one of the tributaries to the Río San Cristobál , the water of which flows into the Río Mapiri .
geography
Sorejaya is located east of the Bolivian Altiplano in the Cordillera Muñecas , which belongs to the high mountain range of the Cordillera Central .
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 12 ° C, the annual precipitation is 650 mm. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 9 ° C in July and 14 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and 100 to 125 mm from December to February.
traffic
Sorejaya is located 122 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the asphalt road Ruta 2 leads 70 kilometers northwest to Huarina , from there the Ruta 16 branches off in a northerly direction , which reaches Achacachi after 23 kilometers and then continues on the east bank of Lake Titicaca towards Ancoraimes . After seventeen kilometers, a dirt road turns north-east into the valleys of the Cordillera Muñecas, after twelve kilometers it passes Sorejaya and continues to Combaya .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 599 | census |
2001 | 663 | census |
2012 | 1 222 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Combaya 98.5 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 La Paz 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Combaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 357 kB) (Spanish)
- La Paz Department - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 11.63 MB)