Yanacachi
Yanacachi | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents | 314 pop. | |
height | 2042 m | |
Post Code | 02-1103-0101-9001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 16 ° 24 ′ S , 67 ° 44 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | La Paz | |
province | South Yungas Province | |
climate | ||
![]() Yanacachi climate diagram |
Yanacachi is a settlement in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Yanacachi is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yanacachi in the Sud Yungas province . The village is picturesquely situated at an altitude of 2042 m on a ridge between the Río Takesi and Río Unduavi , which both drain over the Río Boopi to the Río Beni .
geography
Yanacachi is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is 12 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate only insignificantly between almost 10 ° C in June / July and almost 14 ° C in November / December (see Yapacani climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 1000 mm, the monthly precipitation is between about 10 mm in the months of June and July and a little more than 150 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Yanacachi is located 157 kilometers by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the paved road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction for 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off to Chulumani in a south-easterly direction and follows the course of the Río Unduavi . After about 25 kilometers, a side road leads to the right for a further six kilometers to Yanacachi and from there to the miners' settlement of La Chojlla , located on an old Inca path .
population
The population of the village has decreased significantly in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 504 | census |
2012 | 314 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2012 census
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Yanacachi - General Maps No. 21103
- Municipio Yanacachi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 422 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
- Los Yungas - Yanacachi ( Spanish )