Boy cobo
| Boy cobo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 264 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 936 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-1002-0270-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 42 ′ S , 63 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Luis Calvo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cuevo |
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Boycobo (also: Boicobo ) is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Boycobo is the central place of the canton Boycobo in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Huacaya in the province Luis Calvo . The village is located at an altitude of 936 m on the left bank of the Río Huacaya , which flows into the Río Pilcomayo about 70 km further south . Six kilometers east of the village runs the Voranden chain of the Serranía Huacaya , which here reaches heights of up to over 1,700 m.
geography
Boycobo is located in the winter-humid subtropics , between the mountainous region of the Cordillera de Tajsara o Tarachaca in the west and the Bolivian Chaco in the east.
The annual average temperature of the region is 23 ° C (see Cuevo climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 18 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C in November and January. The climate is semi-humid and has a clear dry season from May to September with monthly rainfall of less than 20 mm; the annual precipitation is almost 800 mm, from December to March monthly values of 110 to 160 mm are reached.
Transport network
Boycobo is 396 kilometers south of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
The paved road Ruta 9 leads from Santa Cruz via Abapó and Ipitá to Boyuibe and another 187 kilometers to Yacuiba on the Bolivian southern border with Argentina . Twenty kilometers before Boyuibe, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 9 in a south-westerly direction, which after fifteen kilometers reaches the village of Cuevo and continues in a westerly direction. Fifteen kilometers west of Cuevo, a dirt road branches off to the south and reaches Boycobo after another 37 kilometers and continues to Huacaya, eight kilometers away .
population
The population of the village has increased by a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 195 | census |
| 2001 | 215 | census |
| 2012 | 264 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Guaraní population, in the municipality of Huacaya 48.6 percent of the population speak the Guaraní 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 from September 24, 2015 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 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 Chuquisaca 2001 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Camiri region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 3.77 MB)
- Municipio Huacaya - General Maps No. 11002
- Municipio Huacaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 402 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )