Villa Patarani
| Villa Patarani | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 771 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3858 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1305-1100-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 15 ′ S , 68 ° 2 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Patacamaya |
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Villa Patarani is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Patarani is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Patacamaya in the province of Aroma and is located at an altitude of 3858 m west of the city of Patacamaya .
geography
Villa Patarani is located on 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 mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C, the annual precipitation is 460 mm (see climate diagram Patacamaya). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to August and 110 mm in January.
Transport network
From Villa Patarani you reach the capital La Paz after 114 kilometers by road, first ten kilometers on an unpaved road in an easterly direction to Patacamaya, then another 104 kilometers on Ruta 1 north to La Paz. From Patacamaya in a southerly direction the Ruta 1 over a distance of 131 kilometers to the city of Oruro .
population
The population of the village has increased several times over in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 212 | census |
| 2001 | 1 024 | census |
| 2012 | 771 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Patacamaya 83.2 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 Patacamaya region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.3 MB)
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250: 000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Patacamaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 380 kB) ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )