Ari Palca

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Ari Palca
Basic data
Residents (state) 291 pop. (2012 census)
height 2528  m
Post Code 05-0602-0103-3001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 20 ° 33 ′  S , 65 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 20 ° 33 ′  S , 65 ° 30 ′  W
Ari Palca (Bolivia)
Ari Palca
Ari Palca
politics
Department Potosí
province Nor Chichas Province
climate
Vitichi climate diagram
Vitichi climate diagram

Ari Palca (also: Aripalca ) is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Ari Palca is the most populous village in the canton of Ara in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Vitichi in the province of Nor Chichas . The village is located at an altitude of 2528  m on the right, western bank of the Río Vitichi , immediately before its confluence with the Río Tumusla .

geography

Ari Palca 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

Ari Palca is located 181 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 Ruta 14 and after thirty kilometers it reaches Ari Palca .

population

The population of the village has remained almost unchanged in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 . census
2001 299 census
2012 291 census

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. ^ 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 December 21, 2015 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; 5.5 MB)

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