Antequera (Oruro)
| Antequera | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1751 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3992 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0603-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 29 ′ S , 66 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Poopó Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Antequera |
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Antequera is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Antequera is the central place of the Municipio Antequera in the province of Poopó . The village is situated at an altitude of 3992 m in the upper reaches of the River Antequera that the later in the eastern part Poopó Lake opens an approximately 1300 sq km large salt lake south of the city of Oruro .
geography
Antequera is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Azanaques , a section of the Cordillera Central .
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 6 ° C (see Antequera climate diagram), the annual rainfall is 325 mm. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 1 ° C in July and a good 8 ° C from November to March. The monthly precipitation is below 10 mm in the months of April to October and only falls from December to March in a significant amount of 50 to 85 mm.
Transport network
Antequera is 100 kilometers by road from Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.
From Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca , the asphalted national road Ruta 1 crosses the highlands of Bolivia in a north-south direction. It leads via El Alto and Oruro to Pazña and from there on in a southerly direction via Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the Bolivian- Argentine border.
In Pazña a dirt road branches off in a north-easterly direction into the Antequera Valley and leads to the towns of Avicaya , Totoral , Campamento Bolívar and Antequera .
population
The population of the village has declined significantly in the past two decades, and only by merging with the settlement of Campamento Bolívar has positive growth been recorded for Antequera:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 615 | census |
| 2001 | 347 | census |
| 2012 | 1 751 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Antequera 63.7 percent of the population speak Quechua .
Cañadón Peñas
Cañadón Peñas ( cañadón = field in the valley that is flooded when it rains; peña = rock, mountain ) is the name for a development project in the canton of Peñas that has been supported by German World Hunger Aid since around 2005 as one of fifteen " Millennium Villages " . In joint workshops, the impoverished inhabitants of the Peñas Valley, together with experts from Welthungerhilfe, have drawn up a five-year plan, the improvements of which are to be implemented in four areas: nutrition, the economy, education, and a say for women. These goals are to be achieved through improvements in animal husbandry, the establishment of small cheese factories and the establishment of schools with lunch. With this project, Welthungerhilfe is not only supporting the 400 families in the Peñas Valley, but also the 13,000 rural residents of the Pazña and Antequera region, whose schools are involved in the project.
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE social data Oruro 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.2 MB)
- ↑ Welthungerhilfe ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Antequera - General Maps No. 40603
- Municipio Antequera - detailed map and population data (PDF; 235 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
