Tito Yupanqui
| Tito Yupanqui | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 3459 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 126 | ||
| height | 3835 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1703-0100-9001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 12 ′ S , 68 ° 57 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Manco Kapac Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Copacabana |
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Tito Yupanqui (also: Tito Yupanki ) is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . It bears its name in honor of Francisco Tito Yupanqui (1550–1616), who created the wooden statue of the " Dark Virgin " in Copacabana .
Location in the vicinity
Tito Yupanqui is located in the province of Manco Kapac and is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tito Yupanqui . The village is located in the eastern part of the Copacabana Peninsula at an altitude of 3835 m on the banks of the Wiñaymarka , the southern part of Lake Titicaca .
geography
Tito Yupanqui lies on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 8 ° C (see Copacabana climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only insignificantly between almost 6 ° C in June / July and 10 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is around 700 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of June and July and 150 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Tito Yupanqui is located at a distance of 126 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the paved road Ruta 2 leads in a north-westerly direction via Huarina to San Pablo de Tiquina on Lake Titicaca, where the 800 meter wide road from Tiquina is crossed with boats and continues towards Copacabana . After sixteen kilometers a dirt road branches off to the south and after three kilometers reaches Tito Yupanqui.
population
The population of the village has increased many times over in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 119 | census |
| 2001 | 773 | census |
| 2012 | 3 459 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Tito Yupanqui 98.7 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 Tito Yupanqui - General Maps No. 21703
- Municipio Tito Yupanqui - detailed map and population data (PDF; 288 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )