Amayapampa
Amayapampa | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 1035 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3994 m | |
Post Code | 05-0202-0100-2001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 18 ° 29 ′ S , 66 ° 23 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Potosí | |
province | Rafael Bustillo Province | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram Uncía |
Amayapampa is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Amayapampa is the central place of the canton Amayapampa in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Chayanta in the province of Rafael Bustillo . Amayapampa is located at an altitude of 3994 m in one of the high valleys of the Cordillera Azanaques east of the Río Chayanta .
geography
Amayapampa is located east of the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern section of the Cordillera Central . The vegetation is that of the puna , the climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate between just under 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate diagram Uncía). The annual precipitation is 370 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the arid period with monthly values of a maximum of 10 mm lasts from April to October.
Transport network
Amayapampa is located at a distance of 140 kilometers by road southeast of Oruro , the capital of the neighboring Oruro department .
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 1 leads south 22 kilometers via Vinto to Machacamarquita , eight kilometers north of Machacamarca . In Machacamarquita, the route 6 branches off in a south-easterly direction and reaches the city of Llallagua after 79 kilometers via Huanuni and over pass heights of more than 4,500 m. From there the Ruta 6 leads another seven kilometers to the provincial capital Uncía . Here a dirt road branches off to the east and after seventeen kilometers reaches the town of Chayanta . From here it's another two kilometers in a northerly direction and then another thirteen kilometers in serpentines to the southeast to Amayapampa .
population
The population of the city of Amayapampa has increased threefold in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 345 | census |
2001 | 837 | census |
2012 | 1 035 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Chayanta 95.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
- ^ INE social data Potosí 2001 ( Memento from December 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map Region Uncia 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Chayanta - General Maps No. 50202
- Municipio Chayanta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 479 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )