Tiawanacu
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 Tiahuanaco ruins with the village of Tiawanaku in the background |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 860 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3860 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0803-0101-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 33 ′ S , 68 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Juliaca |
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Tiawanacu ( Aymara : Tiwanaku ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Tiawanacu is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tiahuanacu in the province of Ingavi . The village is located at an altitude of 3860 m on the left bank of the Río Tiwanacu , which flows 25 kilometers downstream in the Gulf of Taraco into Lake Titicaca . One kilometer east of the city is the ruins ( Tiahuanaco ), which the center of a pre-Inca culture was and since the year 2000 to the World Heritage Site of UNESCO belongs.
geography
Tiawanacu is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.
The mean average temperature in the area of Lake Titicaca is 10 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm (see Juliaca climate diagram). The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 12 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months May to August and just over 100 mm from January to February.
Transport network
Tiawanacu is located 76 kilometers by road west of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the asphalted highway Ruta 2 leads thirteen kilometers to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 another eighty kilometers in a westerly direction to Guaqui . Eighteen kilometers before Guaqui, a side road branches off to the north and leads to Tiawanacu, two kilometers from the main road .
population
The population of the village has increased by around two thirds in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 510 | census |
| 2001 | 747 | census |
| 2013 | 860 | census |
Due to the historical development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Tiahuanacu 95.7 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 Tiahuanacu - General Maps No. 20803
- Municipio Tiahuanacu - detailed map and population data (PDF; 334 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )