Tambillo (Bolivia)
| Tambillo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 711 pop (2012) | ||
| height | 3865 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1202-0300-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 34 ′ S , 68 ° 31 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Tambillo is a town in the La Paz department in the South American landlocked state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tambillo is the central place of the canton Tambillo in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Laja in the province Los Andes . The village is located at an altitude of 3865 m, thirty kilometers southeast of Lake Titicaca , from here the wide plain of the Bolivian highlands extends to the southeast beyond El Alto and Calamarca .
geography
Tambillo is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is semi-humid and a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is 9 ° C (see Batalla's climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December. The annual precipitation is around 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Tambillo is 52 km by road west of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and another five kilometers in a north-westerly direction. Then the Ruta 1 branches off to the southwest and leads via Laja to Tambillo and on to Guaqui on Lake Titicaca and to Desaguadero (Bolivia) on the border with Peru .
From Tambillo you can reach the town of Catavi after twelve kilometers via a side street in a north-westerly direction .
population
The population of the village has increased several times over in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 97 | census |
| 2001 | 205 | census |
| 2012 | 711 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Laja 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 Laja - detailed map and population data (PDF; 647 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )