Apilla
| Apilla | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 280 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3809 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1001-0174-2002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 11 ′ S , 66 ° 7 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Chapare Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colomi |
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Apilla is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Apilla is the third largest town in the canton of Sacaba in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sacaba in the province of Chapare . The municipality is located at an altitude of 3,809 m on one of the tributaries to the Río Jatun Mayu , the continuation of which flows through the town of Villa Tunari .
geography
Apilla is located in one of the high valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental , halfway between the Altiplano and Chapare lowlands. The climate is cool and 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 7 ° C (see Apilla climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and just under 10 ° 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
Apilla is located 63 kilometers by road northeast of the city of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
The Ruta 4 trunk road runs through Cochabamba, 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. One kilometer before the city center of Sacaba, a country road branches off from Ruta 4 in a northerly direction , winds for the first twenty kilometers to an altitude of 4,300 m and then continues in a north-westerly direction to Apilla .
population
The population of the place has been subject to significant fluctuations in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 324 | census |
| 2001 | 639 | census |
| 2012 | 280 | census |
Due to the historically evolved ethnic composition, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sacaba 65.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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 2001 ( Memento of the original dated December 26, 2011 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 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 2001 ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2010 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; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- 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 )