Yaco

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Yaco
Basic data
Residents 577 pop.
height 3614  m
Post Code 02-0903-0100-4006
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 9 ′  S , 67 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 9 ′  S , 67 ° 25 ′  W
Yaco (Bolivia)
Yaco
Yaco
politics
Department La Paz
province Loayza Province
climate
Climate diagram Caxata
Climate diagram Caxata

Yaco is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Yaco is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yaco in the province of Loayza . The village of Yaco is located in the Serranía de Sicasica at an altitude of 3614  m on the right bank of the Río Yaco , which later flows into the Río Luribay .

geography

Yaco lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a typical time of day climate, i. This means that the temperature differences between day and night are greater than the temperature differences between the seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 7 ° C and fluctuates between 3 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December (see Caxata climate diagram). Annual precipitation is 500 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to July and monthly precipitation of more than 100 mm in January and February.

Infrastructure

Yaco is 203 kilometers by road from La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz, the asphalted highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto , from there 129 kilometers to the south Ruta 1 via Sica Sica to Konani . Here a country road branches off to the northeast and leads over 61 kilometers via the villages of Villa Puchuni and Tablachaca to Yaco .

population

The population of the village has decreased slightly over the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 606 census
2012 577 census

Due to the historical population development, the Aymara population is predominant in Yaco , in the Municipio Yaco 97.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2012 census
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ INE social data ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 12.2 MB)

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