Cañas (Tarija)
| Cañas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 366 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2054 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0201-0400-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 54 ′ S , 64 ° 51 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Aniceto Arce | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Padcaya |
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Cañas is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Cañas is the central place of the canton Cañas in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Padcaya in the province of Aniceto Arce . The village is located at an altitude of 2054 m at the confluence of the Quebrada de Cañas in the Río Camacho , which flows 37 kilometers further downstream past the town of Valle de Concepción and flows into the Río Guadalquivir , which is further below the name Río Tarija .
geography
Cañas is located in southern Bolivia on the eastern slopes of the eastern Andes mountain range at the transition to the Bolivian lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is 13.5 ° C (see Padcaya climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 9 ° C in June and July and 17 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 630 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation well over 100 mm.
Transport network
Cañas is 61 kilometers by road south of Tarija , the capital of the department.
From the Tarija, the paved road Ruta 1 leads southeast towards the cities of Padcaya and Bermejo . After seventeen kilometers from the main road, a paved country road branches off to the west, after five kilometers it crosses the valley of the Río Guadalquivir and after three kilometers you reach the village of Valle de Concepción . From there a dirt road leads in a south-westerly direction and reaches the village of Cañas after a further 39 kilometers via Chocloca , Juntas and Chaguaya and continues from there to Camacho .
population
The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 224 | census |
| 2001 | 325 | census |
| 2012 | 366 | 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 22, 2016 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Camargo region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.45 MB)
- Municipio Camargo - General Maps No. 10701
- Municipio Camargo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 452 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )