Aguirre (Chapare)
| Aguirre | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1019 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3372 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1002-0172-1703 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 22 ′ S , 65 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Chapare Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colomi |
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Aguirre is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Aguirre is the central place of the canton Aguirre in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Colomi in the province of Chapare and was previously part of the Municipio Sacaba . The city is located at an altitude of 3372 m on one of the tributaries to the ten kilometers northwest of Corani Lake , a nearly ten kilometer long lake with an area of about eighteen square kilometers.
geography
Aguirre is located in one of the high valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental , halfway between the Altiplano and Chapare lowlands. The climate is temperate and a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are greater than between the cold and warm season.
The annual average temperature of the region is just under 11 ° C (see Colomi climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 8 ° C in June / July and just under 14 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is around 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, and a short humidity period from December to February with 90 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Aguirre is located 58 kilometers by road east of the city of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
The Ruta 4 highway runs through Aguirre, with a length of 1,657 kilometers across the entire country in a west-east direction. The road begins in the west at Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border, passes Cochabamba, Sacaba and Colomi and reaches Aguirre after 435 kilometers . The road then continues in an easterly direction via Santa Cruz to Puerto Suárez in the Brazilian border area. Apart from the last 700 kilometers to the east, the road is paved throughout.
population
The population of the place has increased by almost half in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 689 | census |
| 2013 | 1 019 | census |
Due to the historically grown ethnic composition, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Colomi 83.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ INE social data 2001 ( Memento from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Punata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.12 MB)
- Municipio Sacaba - General Maps No. 31001
- Municipio Sacaba - detailed map and population data (PDF; 397 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )