Villa Remedios (Ingavi)
| Villa Remedios | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 589 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3946 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0801-0500-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 46 ′ S , 68 ° 10 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Ingavi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Viacha |
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Villa Remedios is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
After the provincial capital Viacha, Villa Remedios is the most populous municipality in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Viacha in the province of Ingavi and is located at an altitude of 3946 m . Villa Remedios is located on a twenty kilometer wide north-south flat section of the Bolivian Altiplano , directly to the east of the village rise the foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica , which rise here to almost 5,000 m.
geography
Villa Remedios 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's climate is typical of the time of day , with average temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.
The mean annual temperature of Viacha is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 600 mm (see Viacha climate diagram). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C from November to February. The months May to August are arid with monthly precipitation of less than 15 mm, in the southern summer months of January and February monthly precipitation of more than 100 mm is measured.
Transport network
Villa Remedios is 42 kilometers by road south 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 1 another 29 kilometers to Villa Remedios and on via Patacamaya to Caracollo , where the Ruta 1 continues to Oruro in the south and the Ruta 4 into Cochabamba branches off to the east .
population
The population of the village has decreased slightly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 679 | census |
| 2001 | 673 | census |
| 2012 | 589 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality Viacha 70.8 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 La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Topographic map La Paz (South) 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Municipio Viacha - detailed map and population data (PDF; 630 kB) ( Spanish )
- La Paz Department - Social data (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )