Viscachani
| Viscachani | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 185 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3842 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1305-0900-2003 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 11 ′ S , 67 ° 57 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Provincial flavor | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Patacamaya |
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Viscachani is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Viscachani is the central place of the canton Viscachani in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Patacamaya in the province of Aroma and is located at an altitude of 3842 m . The center of the village is one kilometer west of the main road on the banks of the Río Kheto , a tributary to the Río Desaguadero , which it reaches at the village of Eucaliptus .
geography
Viscachani 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 climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the fluctuations in mean daytime temperatures are more pronounced than the temperature fluctuations between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December (see climate diagram Patacamaya). The annual precipitation is 460 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to August and at 110 mm in January.
Transport network
Viscachani is 96 kilometers south of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the highway Ruta 2 leads in a south-westerly direction to the neighboring town of El Alto , from there Ruta 1 continues in a southerly direction to Calamarca and after 83 kilometers reaches Viscachani . It then runs in a south-easterly direction to Patacamaya , where it crosses the east-west running Ruta 4 , and on via Oruro , Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the border with Argentina .
population
The population of the village has changed only insignificantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 183 | census |
| 2001 | 208 | census |
| 2012 | 185 | 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 (PDF file; 11.63 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 - General Maps No. 21305
- Municipio Patacamaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 380 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )