Tajma

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Tajma
Yungas in Bolivia
Yungas in Bolivia
Basic data
Residents (state) 589 pop. (2012 census)
height 1600  m
Post Code 02-1101-0170-6701
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 16 ° 23 ′  S , 67 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 23 ′  S , 67 ° 29 ′  W
Tajma (Bolivia)
Tajma
Tajma
politics
Department La Paz
province South Yungas Province
climate
Climate diagram Chulumani
Climate diagram Chulumani

Tajma is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Tajma is the third largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Chulumani in the Sud Yungas province . The village is located at an altitude of 1600  m in a north-easterly direction, twenty kilometers from the provincial capital Chulumani .

geography

Tajma is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real above the Río Solacama . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.

The mean average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate diagram Chulumani), the mean monthly values ​​fluctuate only slightly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 1150 mm, the monthly precipitation is between about 20 mm in the months of June and July and more than 150 mm from December to February.

Transport network

Tajma is 127 kilometers by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction for 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off in a south-easterly direction along the Río Unduavi and after 70 kilometers it reaches Chulumani . From there a dirt road leads seventeen kilometers to Tajma and on via Pasto Pata to La Asunta .

population

The population of the place has almost doubled in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 340 census
2012 589 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Chulumani 49.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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