Patamanta is a small town in
Bolivia
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. It is the second largest town in the district of
Pucarani in the province of
Los Andes, and is located on the right bank of an inlet towards
Lake Titicaca. The village is located on the
Altiplano. It lies on the plateau between the
Andean mountain ranges of the
Cordillera Occidental in the west and the
Cordillera Central Central Cordillera refers to the New Guinea Highlands.
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in the east. Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of
Aymara people, with 96.7% of the population speaking the
Aymara language. The population was 691 in 1992, increasing to 745 in 2001, and then 857 in 2012.
The region has a pronounced daytime climate in which the average temperature fluctuations are more evident during the day than during the course of the year. The annual average temperature of the region is 9 °C, while the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 °C in July and 10 °C in November and December. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, and the monthly precipitation is between less than 15 mm in the months of June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
In December 2019, English travel vlogger
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's video about a trip to Patamanta was reported on by the Spanish-language branch of
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, who called it "more scary than entering
Chernobyl".
The video showed him informing a local woman that he was a tourist, prompting her to warn him that "they burn people" in the area.
Two men later approached him, inspected his passport, and gave him 30 minutes to explore and then leave the area.
References
External links
Reliefkarte der Region La Paz 1:250.000(PDF; 11,07 MB)
Municipio Pucarani - Detailkarte und Bevölkerungsdaten(PDF; 647 kB) (''spanisch'')
Departamento La Paz - Sozialdaten der Municipios(PDF; 11,63 MB) (''spanisch'')
Populated places in La Paz Department (Bolivia)
Aymara
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