Buey Tambo
Buey Tambo | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 612 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3311 m | |
Post Code | 05-0301-0701-4701 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 34 ′ S , 65 ° 20 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Potosí | |
province | Province of Cornelio Saavedra | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram Betanzos |
Buey Tambo is a scattered settlement in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Buey Tambo is the largest town in the canton of Quivincha in the municipality of Betanzos in the province of Cornelio Saavedra . The village is located at an altitude of 3311 m on the banks of the Río Puma Waykhillo, which joins the Río Mollewaykho downstream and belongs to the river system of the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Buey Tambo is located at the southern end of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate of the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation between day and night is more pronounced than between summer and winter.
The annual average temperature in the region is around 17 ° C (see Betanzo's climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is almost 500 mm, the months May to September are arid with monthly values below 15 mm, only in January a rainfall of 100 mm is reached.
Transport network
Buey Tambo is located 55 kilometers by road southeast of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the Ruta 5 road leads east to Betanzos and on to the capital Sucre . Ten kilometers after Betanzos, the highway crosses the Río Khoña Paya, and seven kilometers later a country road branches off in a northerly direction, which after another seven kilometers reaches Buey Tambo .
population
The population of the village has hardly changed in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 600 | census |
2012 | 612 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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 2001 ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2017 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.
Web links
- Relief map 6535-III of the Betanzos region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.29 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Betanzos - General Maps No. 50301
- Municipio Betanzos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 735 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )