Villa Anta
| Villa Anta | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 325 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3859 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0302-0701-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 54 ′ S , 68 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Pacajes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Comanche |
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Villa Anta is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Anta is the central place of the canton Villa Anta in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Caquiaviri in the province Pacajes . Villa Anta is located at an altitude of 3859 m about fifty kilometers south of Lake Titicaca on a right tributary to Lake Aripuno , through which the Río Desaguadero flows to Lake Titicaca.
geography
Villa Anta is located between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano . The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature is 7 ° C (see Comanche climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and just under 9 ° C in November / December. The mean annual precipitation is around 550 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to July and 100 to 150 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Villa Anta is located at a distance of 105 kilometers by road southwest of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz the asphalted highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there the Ruta 19 another 23 km to the southwest to Viacha . Here the unpaved Ruta 43 branches off in a south-westerly direction, which reaches Villa Anta via Chama and Jihuacuta after 59 kilometers and then leads via Nazacara , San Andrés de Machaca and Santiago de Machaca to Catacora on the border with Peru .
population
The population of the village has increased almost fourfold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 69 | census |
| 2001 | 162 | census |
| 2012 | 325 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Caquiaviri 95.7 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 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Caquiaviri - General Maps No. 20302
- Municipio Caquiaviri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )