Ulloma
| Ulloma | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 512 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3804 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0303-0208-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 29 ′ S , 68 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Pacajes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Charaña |
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Ulloma is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Ulloma is the most populous place in the district ( Municipio ) Calacoto in the province of Pacajes . The village is located at an altitude of 3804 m on the right southern bank of the Río Desaguadero , about one hundred kilometers as the crow flies southeast of Lake Titicaca .
geography
Ulloma has a semi-arid climate, as there is insufficient rainfall for more than six months of the year for plants to grow. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.
The mean annual temperature of Ulloma is 8.3 ° C (see climate diagram Charaña), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between just under 5 ° C from June to July and just over 10 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is a low 300 mm, the monthly values are between under 10 mm in the months May to October and about 50 mm from December to March.
traffic
Ulloma is 192 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the highway Ruta 2 leads to El Alto , from there the Ruta 19 in a south-westerly direction via Viacha to Caquiaviri and on to Charaña on the Chilean border. From Caquiaviri an unpaved road leads over 30 kilometers in a south-easterly direction to Coro Coro and from there another country road leads 26 kilometers to the south-west to Calacoto , the central town of the district. The unpaved road to Ulloma crosses the Río Desaguadero in a southerly direction and reaches Ulloma after another 35 kilometers .
population
The population of the village has almost tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 173 | census |
| 2001 | 307 | census |
| 2012 | 512 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Calacoto 93.1 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 Calacoto - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.02 MB) ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )