Tito Yupanqui, Bolivia

Tito Yupanqui (also: Tito Yupanki ) is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia. She bears her name in honor of Francisco Tito Yupanqui (1550-1616), who created a wooden statue of the "Dark Virgin " in Copacabana.

Location in near space

Tito Yupanqui lies in the province of Manco Kapac and is a central point in that region ( bolivian: Municipio) Tito Yupanqui. The village is located in the eastern part of the Copacabana Peninsula at a height of 3835 m on the banks of Wiñaymarka, the southern part of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Tito Yupanqui lies 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 10 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 8 ° 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 about 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Tito Yupanqui lies at a distance of 126 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 leads in a northwesterly direction over Huarina to San Pablo de Tiquina on Lake Titicaca, where the 800 -meter-wide road from Tiquina is crossed with boats and continues towards Copacabana. After ten miles down a dirt road branches off to the south and reached after three kilometers Tito Yupanqui.

Population

The population of the settlement at the 2001 census was 773 inhabitants and is likely to have increased further in the current decade, as is forecast for the municipality from 2001 to 2010, a population increase of about 40%.

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Tito Yupanqui 98.7 % of the population speak the Aymara language.