Umala
| Umala | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 143 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3827 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1302-0100-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 22 ′ S , 68 ° 1 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Patacamaya |
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Umala is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Umala is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Umala in the province of Aroma . The village is located at an altitude of 3827 m at the northern end of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 kilometers long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in the west of the city of Oruro in a north-west-south-east direction.
geography
Umala 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 climate is the typical daytime climate of the high mountains near the equator, in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C (see climate diagram Patacamaya), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is 460 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to August and at 110 mm in January.
Transport network
Umala is located 128 kilometers by road south of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 2 leads for thirteen kilometers to El Alto , from there Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as an asphalt road 91 kilometers to Patacamaya , then Ruta 4 in a southwesterly direction sixteen kilometers to Cañaviri . From there, an unpaved road leads the remaining eight kilometers south to Umala , shortly afterwards crosses the Río Desaguadero and continues to San Pedro de Curahuara and Totora in the Oruro department .
population
The population of the village has changed only insignificantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 134 | census |
| 2001 | 152 | census |
| 2012 | 143 | census |
Due to the historical development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Umala 91.2 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 Umala - General Maps No. 21302
- Municipio Umala - detailed map and population data (PDF; 418 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )