Zampaya

Zampaya is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Zampaya is the central town of Canton Zampaya district ( bolivian: Municipio) Copacabana in the province of Manco Kapac and lies at an altitude of 4009 m on the Yampupata Peninsula in Lake Titicaca. The village is located on the northwest slope of the Yampupata - ridge, of more than 200 m rises above the water level of the lake.

Geography

Zampaya 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 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 in the months of June and July and about 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Zampaya lies at a distance of 159 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 sea - strait is crossed by boat. After another forty kilometers, the Ruta 2 Copacabana achieved. From here a dirt road along the coast in a north-westerly direction towards Yampupata, of the eight kilometers a side road leads uphill and reached after a further five kilometers Zampaya.

Population

The population of the town has decreased dramatically in the decade from 1992 through 2001.

While she was still at the 1992 census, 639 inhabitants, they amounted to only 141 inhabitants at the 2001 census. More recent data are not yet available.

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Copacabana 94.3 % of the population speak the Aymara language.