Tacacoma
Tacacoma | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 794 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3515 m | |
Post Code | 02-0603-0100-6001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 15 ° 35 ′ S , 68 ° 39 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | La Paz | |
province | Larecaja Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Sorata |
Tacacoma is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tacacoma is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tacacoma in the province of Larecaja . The village is located at an altitude of 3515 m on a ridge between two southern tributaries of the Río Mapiri .
geography
Tacacoma is located east of the Altiplano in the Bolivian Royal Cordillera ( Cordillera Real ), which in turn is part of the Cordillera Central .
The mean annual temperature of the region is 15.5 ° C and the annual precipitation is almost 700 mm, favored by the rise of warm and humid air masses from the lowlands. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 13 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in November / December. The monthly precipitation is between less than 20 mm in the months June to August and more than 100 mm from December to February.
traffic
Tacacoma is 180 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 . Shortly after Achacachi, a country road branches off to the northeast, which reaches the town of Sorata via Warisata after about forty kilometers . From there the road continues via Quiabaya and Tacacoma to Mapiri in the Yungas on the eastern edge of the Cordillera Central mountain range .
population
The population of the village has increased by around a third in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 379 | census |
2001 | 684 | census |
2012 | 794 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Tacacoma 76.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ GEO travel community
- ^ 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 Tacacoma - General Maps No. 20603
- Municipio Tacacoma - detailed map and population data (PDF; 836 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )