Villa Copacabana
| Villa Copacabana | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Cooperativa Central Villa Copacabana | ||
| Residents (state) | 227 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3747 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0301-1300-1008 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 20 ′ S , 67 ° 35 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Carangas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Corque climate diagram |
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Cooperativa Central Villa Copacabana (also short: Villa Copacabana ) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Copacabana is the central place of the canton Villa Copacabana in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Corque in the province of Carangas . The village is located at an altitude of 3,747 m above sea level on the southern foothills of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in a north-west-south-east direction.
geography
Villa Copacabana is located in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano , between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental . The region's climate is typical of the time of day , with mean temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature is 7 ° C (see Corque climate diagram), the monthly average values fluctuate between 3 ° C in June / July and around 10 ° C from December to February. The mean annual precipitation is almost 300 mm and 80 percent falls in the months of December to March, the rest of the year is arid with monthly values of less than 15 mm.
Transport network
Villa Copacabana is 62 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro the dirt road Ruta 12 leads in a south-westerly direction via Toledo to Villa Copacabana and then via Ancaravi and Huachacalla to Pisiga Bolívar on the border with Chile .
In Villa Copacabana an unpaved road branches off to the south, which leads via Laca Laca Quita Quita to Andamarca and on via Eduardo Avaroa to Orinoca , the birthplace of the first indigenous president of Bolivia, Evo Morales , on the southern edge of Lake Poopó .
population
The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations in the past two years:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 122 | census |
| 2001 | 307 | census |
| 2012 | 227 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Corque 93.1 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 Oruro 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map Nevado Sajama 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Municipio Corque - General Maps No. 40301
- Municipio Corque - detailed map and population data (PDF; 592 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )