Tumarapi
| Tumarapi | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2026 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4032 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0306-0106-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 5 ′ S , 68 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Pacajes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colquencha |
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Tumarapi is a country town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tumarapi is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Waldo Ballivián in the province of Pacajes . The village is located at an altitude of 4032 m on a twenty kilometers wide north-south flat section of the Bolivian Altiplano . To the east of the village, at a distance of twenty kilometers, rise the foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica , which here rise to almost 5,000 m.
geography
Tumarapi 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 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 10 ° C (see Colquencha climate diagram), the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and just under 12 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is around 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 125 mm in January.
Transport network
Tumarapi is located 80 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there 47 kilometers south the Ruta 1 to Calamarca and on via Patacamaya to Caracollo , where the Ruta 1 continues to Oruro in the south and the Ruta 4 into Cochabamba branches off to the east . From Calmarca a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction and after 20 kilometers reaches Tumarapi .
population
The population of the village has increased more than tenfold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 176 | census |
| 2001 | 436 | census |
| 2012 | 2,026 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Ballivián 95.9 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 La Paz 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Waldo Ballivián - General Maps No. 20306
- Municipio Waldo Ballivián - detailed map and population data (PDF; 342 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )