Vilaque Cochapampa
| Vilaque Cochapampa | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 784 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4430 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1201-1270-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 22 ′ S , 68 ° 13 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Vilaque Cochapampa is a scattered settlement in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Vilaque Cochapampa is the most populous place in the canton of Villa Vilaque in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pucarani in the province of Los Andes.The center of the place is at an altitude of 4430 m on the upper reaches of the Río Pampasi mountain stream , a few kilometers northwest of the outskirts of La Paz .
geography
Vilaque Cochapampa is located on the edge of 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 temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is 8.8 ° C (see Batalla's climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is almost 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 20 mm from May to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Vilaque Cochapampa is 39 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the highway Ruta 2 leads via El Alto in a north-westerly direction to Villa Vilaque and from there on via Batallas and Huarina to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca. One and a half kilometers from Vilaque, before crossing the Río Vilaque, branches a dirt road in a northeasterly direction from the highway down, follows the Río Vilaque and the Río Pampasi upriver and reached via Vilaque Pampajasi the center of Vilaque Cochapampa .
population
The population of the scattered settlement has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 276 | census |
| 2012 | 784 | 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 .
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 of the region of La Paz North 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Pucarani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 647 kB) ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )