Anthura

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Anthura
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 Coordinates: 19 ° 7 ′  S , 65 ° 58 ′  W
Anthura (Bolivia)
Anthura
Anthura
politics
Department Potosí
province Tomás Frías Province
climate
Climate diagram Tinguipaya
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
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

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ INE social data Potosí 2001 ( Memento from December 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 5.2 MB)

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