Tujuyo

Tujuyo
Basic data
Residents (state)	817 pop. (2012 census)
height	3900 m
Post Code	02-1201-0300-9001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	16 ° 24 ′ S , 68 ° 25 ′ W Coordinates: 16 ° 24 ′ S , 68 ° 25 ′ W
	Tujuyo
	Tujuyo
politics
Department	La Paz
province	Los Andes Province
climate
	; Climate diagram Batallas

Tujuyo (also: Tojuyo ) is a scattered settlement in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Tujuyo is the second largest town in the canton of Patamanta in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pucarani in the province of Los Andes . Its center is located at an altitude of 3900 m on the right, western bank of the Río Huancané, about twenty kilometers from the southeastern edge of Lake Titicaca . The village was still part of the canton of Villa Ascensión de Chipamaya in 2001 .

geography

Tujuyo is located on the Bolivian plateau 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 temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.

The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see Batalla's climate diagram). 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

Tujuyo is 42 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the Ruta 2 trunk road leads via El Alto and Villa Vilaque in a north-westerly direction to Patamanta and on via Batallas and Huarina to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca. Directly northwest behind Patamanta a side road branches off in a southwest direction from the highway and leads to Pucarani , the scattered settlement Tujuyo is southeast of the road between the junction and the village of Chipamaya .

population

The population of the place has increased slightly in the past decade:

year	Residents	source
1992	no detailed data	census
2001	762	census
2012	817	census

Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Pucarani 96.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .