Villa Khora

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Villa Khora
Basic data
Residents (state) 490 pop. (2012 census)
height 1206  m
Post Code 02-1003-0301-4001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 16 ° 36 ′  S , 67 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 36 ′  S , 67 ° 17 ′  W
Villa Khora (Bolivia)
Villa Khora
Villa Khora
politics
Department La Paz
province Inquisivi Province
climate
Miguilla climate diagram
Miguilla climate diagram

Villa Khora is a village in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Villa Khora is the fifth largest town in the canton of Circuata in the municipality of Cajuata in the Inquisivi province . The village is located at an altitude of 1206  m in the valley of the Río Cañamina , a right tributary of the Río de la Paz , a tributary to the Río Beni .

geography

Villa Khora is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.

The mean average temperature of the region is 23 ° C (see Miguilla's climate diagram), the mean monthly values ​​fluctuate only insignificantly between 20 ° C in June / July and just under 25 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is about 1150 mm, the monthly precipitation is between almost 20 mm in the months of June and July and more than 150 mm from December to February.

Transport network

Villa Khora is located 205 kilometers east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 3 leads north-easterly 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off in a south-east direction and leads via Chulumani , Ocobaya , Irupana and La Plazuela into the valley of the Río de la Paz, where it Via Miguillas and Lujmani you reach Villa Khora after 145 kilometers . From there it continues via the villages of Circuata , Inquisivi and Independencia (Ayopaya) to Vinto , where it meets the Ruta 4 to Cochabamba .

population

The population of Lujmani has increased slightly over the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 440 census
2012 490 census

The region has a significant proportion of indigenous Aymara population, in the municipality of Cajuata 34.4 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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
  4. Social data of the municipalities in the department (Spanish) (PDF file; 11.63 MB)

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