Anthura
Anthura | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 1164 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3671 m | |
Post Code | 05-0102-0105-4001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 7 ′ S , 65 ° 58 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Potosí | |
province | Tomás Frías Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Tinguipaya |
Anthura is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Anthura is the central place of the canton Anthura in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tinguipaya in the province Tomás Frías . The village is located at an altitude of 3671 m a few kilometers west of the Río Tinguipaya , which flows in its further course to the Río Pilcomayo , a tributary of the Río Paraguay and Río Paraná .
geography
Anthura is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate is the typical daytime climate of the cold tropics , in which the mean fluctuations in temperatures during the day are more pronounced than during the course of the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C (see Tinguipaya climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate only slightly between just under 4 ° C in June / July and just under 9 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 370 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months April to September and a maximum of about 80 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Anthura is located at a distance of 109 kilometers by road northwest of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the Ruta 1 highway leads north via Tinguipaya via Challa Mayu and on to Poopó , Oruro and El Alto , the neighboring town of La Paz , and to Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca .
In Challa Mayu, a country road branches off in a north-easterly direction from Ruta 1, which after twenty kilometers reaches the village of Anthura .
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past decade, mainly due to the incorporation of smaller localities:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 193 | census |
2012 | 1164 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tinguipaya 99.3 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE social data Potosí 2001 ( Memento from December 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Satellite map of Bolivia from 1: 2,000 GeoBolivia
- Relief map of the Ajtara region 1: 50,000 Instituto Geográfico Militar Bolivia (PDF; 2.6 MB) ( accessed May 15, 2017 )
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Tinguipaya - General Maps No. 50102
- Municipio Tinguipaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 656 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )