San Antonio de Senkata

San Antonio (also: San Antonio de Senkata ) is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

San Antonio is a central place in the canton of San Antonio de Senkata and is located in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Calamarca in the province of flavor at an altitude of 3945 m. North and south of San Antonio extends the wide plains of the Bolivian highlands, ten kilometers east of the village rise the first cross bar of the ridge of the Serranía de Sicasica.

Geography

San Antonio is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.

The mean average temperature of the region is 9 to 10 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm (see climate chart El Alto). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

San Antonio is located at a distance of 45 kilometers of road south of La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 further 32 kilometers to the south to San Antonio and on about Calamarca and Patacamaya to Oruro. In San Antonio branches off a dirt side road from the south-west, which leads to the villages Ichuraya Grande and collana Uncallamaya.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by more than two-thirds:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Calamarca 95.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.