Senkata

Senkata is located in the lateral areas of Avenida 6 de marzo in the city of El Alto, Bolivia. This avenue is part of the Ruta nacional 1 - the Bolivian highway network that connects the La Paz Department (Bolivia) with the departments of Oruro, Chuquisaca, Potosí and Tarija.[28]

The District of Senkata is in the vicinity of the La Paz - Oruro highway. It houses the Senkata Plant, where Yacimientos Petrolíferos de Bolivia has its liquid gas and gasoline installations [29] providing these to the neighbouring city of La Paz,[30][31] also houses the headquarters of the executive power of Bolivia.

Much like the other districts in El Alto, the population that lived there initially were immigrants of other regions in Bolivia, mainly miners that lived through the relocation in Bolivia during the 80s,[32][33][34] which caused the loss of jobs for mine workers and triggered their migration to other cities.[35][36]

This migration period represents one of the four milestones that marked the urban development of El Alto, a city with 90% of inhabitants that speak Aymara.

The Senkata area shows a big development of District 8,[33] it has many neighbourhoods and residential areas like:

• Florida Senkata[37]
• San Luis de Senkata[3]
• San Jorge Senkata
• 5 de diciembre[38]
• Senkata 79 Anex[3]
• San Miguel Senkata
• 27 de mayo Senkata
• Los Pinos Senkata
• Florida Senkata
• 6 de agosto Senkata
• Senkata 79
• Senkata Pucarani

Among the main landmarks of the area there are:

• Church San Francisco de Asís[32]
• Square 25 de julio
• Ex-tranca of Senkata[39]
• Parrish of Santa Clara[40]
• Senkata Plant YPFB[2][41][42]

• El Alto
• La Paz