Willkahuaya
| Willkahuaya | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 188 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3839 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0201-0601-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 8 ′ S , 68 ° 52 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Omasuyos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Achacachi |
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Willkahuaya is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Willkahuaya is the central place of the canton Willkahuaya in the municipality Achacachi in the province Omasuyos . The village is located at an altitude of 3839 m in a valley open to the southwest towards the lake shore in the southeast section of Lake Titicaca , below the coastal road from Jankho Amaya to Santiago de Huata .
geography
The climate in the Willkahuaya area is derived from the altitude on the Altiplano and the proximity to the large body of water of Lake Titicaca, which mitigates the temperature fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 11 ° C (see climate diagram Achacachi), with the monthly average in the coldest month (July) at 8 ° C only slightly deviating from the warmest month (November to March) at 12 ° C. The climate is arid from June to August with only sporadic rainfall, and it is humid in the summer months, especially from December to March, with monthly rainfall of more than 100 mm. The annual precipitation is around 600 mm.
Transport network
Willkahuaya is 101 kilometers by road north-west of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 2 leads via El Alto in a north-westerly direction 70 kilometers to Huarina, from there along the shores of Lake Titicaca via Huatajata , Chua Cocani and Jankho Amaya to the Strait of Tiquina and on to Copacabana and Khasani . On the western edge of Jankho Amaya, a side road branches off in a north-westerly direction along the coastline to Cocotoní and on to Santiago de Huata . Two kilometers behind Cocotoní, an unpaved country road leads down to the lakeshore to Willkahuaya .
population
The inhabitants of Willkahuaya has grown one-fifth over the past decade by about:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 155 | census |
| 2012 | 188 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Achacachi - to which the Huatajata region belonged until August 2010 - 94.1 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 - 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 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Sorata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 12.81 MB)
- Relief map of the Achacachi region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.63 kB)
- Municipio Achacachi - General Maps No. 20201
- Municipio Achacachi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 671 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )