Tacobamba (La Paz)
| Tacobamba | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 397 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3112 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0902-0104-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 54 ′ S , 67 ° 56 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Loayza Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sapahaqui |
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Tacobamba is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tacobamba is the third largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sapahaqui in the province of Loayza . The town of Tacobamba is located at an altitude of 3123 m on the Río Sapahaqui in the northern foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica .
geography
Tacobamba lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a typical daytime climate in which the mean temperature differences between day and night are greater than the temperature differences between the seasons.
The average annual temperature of the region is 14 ° C and fluctuates between 11 ° C in June and 16 ° C in November (see Sapahaqui climate diagram). Annual precipitation is 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to August and monthly precipitation of more than 100 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Tacobamba is located at a distance of 86 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 1 leads south via El Alto to the south. About 50 kilometers south of El Alto, a country road branches off to the southeast in Calamarca and after another 34 kilometers leads via Sapahaqui to Tacobamba .
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 359 | census |
| 2012 | 397 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the Aymara population is predominant in Tacobamba , in the Municipio Sapahaqui 96.7 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 Sapahaqui - detailed map and population data (PDF; 498 kB) ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )