Unutuluni

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Unutuluni
Basic data
Residents (state) 857 pop. (2012 census)
height 872  m
Post Code 02-0606-0401-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 15 ° 36 ′  S , 68 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 15 ° 36 ′  S , 68 ° 6 ′  W
Unutuluni (Bolivia)
Unutuluni
Unutuluni
politics
Department La Paz
province Larecaja Province
climate
Climate diagram Mapiri
Climate diagram Mapiri

Unutuluni is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Unutuluni is one of the localities in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tipuani in the province of Larecaja . The village is located at an altitude of 872  m on a right tributary of the Río Tipuani , which flows from the northern slope of the Illampu at Guanay into the Río Mapiri , a tributary of the Río Beni .

geography

Unutuluni is located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real .

The mean average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 1400 mm (see Mapiri climate diagram).

The region has no pronounced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 21 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to January, and the day and night temperatures also show only slight fluctuations. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of June and July and about 200 mm from December to February.

economy

The Tipuani Valley is the most important gold mining area in Bolivia. Mining takes place both in open-cast mining and in underground mines that are up to 100 m deep. To stabilize the mine shafts, the natural forest around the Tipuani valley has been cleared to a large extent in the past centuries, so that barren grasslands have spread here, which no longer give the steep slopes of the Tipuani valley sufficient support. In March 2003, for example, a landslide above the village of Chima claimed more than a hundred lives, and similar disasters have occurred in two other villages in the valley in the meantime. Since the gold finds in the river and the mines are not very productive, 90 percent of the population live below the poverty line, so that the town of Unutuluni is also very poor.

Transport network

Unutuluni is located about 300 kilometers by road north of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz, the partially paved road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction 160 kilometers via Cotapata to Caranavi , from there branches off the unpaved Ruta 25 , which reaches Guanay after 70 kilometers and continues to Mapiri and Apolo . From Guanay there is a three-hour drive on barely paved roads in a south-westerly direction along the Río Tipuani via the town of Tipuani and from there on to Unutuluni .

population

The city's population has increased significantly over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 500 census
2012 857 census

Due to historical immigration, the region has a not insignificant proportion of indigenous population , in the municipality of Tipuani 28.8 percent of the population speak the Aymara language and 15.5 percent speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tree sponsorships for reforestation and management of the Tipuani Valley, Bolivia Rainforest Institute Freiburg
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  4. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  5. ↑ INE social data La Paz 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)

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