Villa Puni
| Villa Puni | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 413 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3837 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0405-0600-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 40 ′ S , 69 ° 10 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Eliodoro Camacho Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Escoma |
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Villa Puni is a village in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Puni is the central location of the canton Villa Puni in the 2009 newly formed district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Escoma , previously part of the Municipio Puerto Acosta , in the province of Eliodoro Camacho . The village is located at an altitude of 3837 m on the Bay of Escoma on the eastern bank of Lake Titicaca west of the mouth of the Río Suches .
geography
Villa Puni is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between Lake Titicaca in the west and the Cordillera Muñecas in the east. The climate of the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.
The mean average temperature of the region is 8 to 9 ° C. The monthly averages vary only insignificantly between June / July (5–6 ° C) and November / December (10 ° C). The mean annual precipitation is around 800 mm (see Escoma climate diagram), the monthly values in the arid period are between under 20 mm from June to August and a humidity period from December to March with values between 120 and 165 mm.
Transport network
Villa Puni is located 172 kilometers by road northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the asphalted highway Ruta 2 leads 70 kilometers north to Huarina , from there another 97 kilometers via Ruta 16 via Achacachi , Ancoraimes and Puerto Carabuco to Escoma and further north towards Charazani . To the northwest, a branch line reaches Villa Puni after five kilometers and then continues to the country town of Puerto Acosta near the Peruvian border.
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 395 | census |
| 2001 | 329 | census |
| 2012 | 413 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population; in the municipality of Puerto Acosta in the 2001 borders, 97.3 percent of the population spoke the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ley 4004 of February 6, 2009
- ^ 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
- Municipio Puerto Acosta - General Maps No. 20401
- Municipio Puerto Acosta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 473 kB)
- Departamento La Paz - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 11.63 MB)