Macaw (Nor Chichas)

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Era
Basic data
Residents (state) 117 pop. (2001 census)
height 2566  m
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 20 ° 31 ′  S , 65 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 20 ° 31 ′  S , 65 ° 30 ′  W
Macaw (Bolivia)
Era
Era
politics
Department Potosí
province Nor Chichas Province
climate
Vitichi climate diagram
Vitichi climate diagram

Ara is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Ara is the central place of the canton Ara in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Vitichi in the province of Nor Chichas . The village is located at an altitude of 2566  m on the right, western bank of the Río Vitichi , a few kilometers above its confluence with the Río Tumusla .

geography

Ara is located in the southern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano . The climate is cool and dry because of the inland location and is characterized by a typical daytime climate, in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations.

The average annual temperature is 13 ° C (see Vitichi climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between 10 ° C in June / July and a good 15 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is only about 400 mm, with a very pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 20 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with about 80 mm monthly precipitation.

Transport network

Ara is located at a distance of 176 kilometers by road south of Potosí , the capital of the department.

From Potosí, the paved road Ruta 1 leads from Lake Titicaca in the north to the Argentine border in the south and crosses the cities of El Alto , Oruro and Potosí . From Potosí it leads over 37 kilometers in a southerly direction to Cuchu Ingenio , where route 14 branches off in a southerly direction and leads via Vitichi , Tumusla and Cotagaita to Villazón . Twenty kilometers south of Vitichi, a side road branches off in a south-easterly direction from Route 14 and after 25 kilometers reaches Ara and then continues downstream to Ari Palca at the mouth of the Río Vitichi.

population

The population of the village was 117 at the last census in 2001 , older or more recent data are currently not available.

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Vitichi 98.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE)
  2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001 ( Memento from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ INE social data Potosí 2001 ( Memento from December 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 5.24 MB)

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