Cahuana
| Cahuana | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 173 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3761 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0901-1500-1002 | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 4 ′ S , 68 ° 30 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Sabaya Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sabaya |
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Cahuana is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Cahuana is the central place of the canton of Cahuana in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sabaya in the province of Sabaya . The village is located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an altitude of 3761 m and is framed by three mountain peaks that rise more than a thousand meters from the plain of Cahuana: the Tata Sabaya (5430 m) in the southwest, the Cerro Pariani (5077 m) in the Southeast, and the Cerro Pumiri (4805 m) in the northeast near the village of Sabaya .
A few kilometers north of the village, the Río Sabaya flows in an easterly direction , whose water, which flows only occasionally over the course of the year, flows thirty kilometers further downstream into the Salar de Coipasa salt lake .
geography
The climate in the region is semi-arid , the annual precipitation is only 200 mm (see climate diagram Sabaya). From April to November there is a dry season with monthly values of less than 10 mm of precipitation, the wet season in summer is short and the rain is not very productive. The annual average temperature is almost 7 ° C without significant fluctuations in the course of the year, but with strong daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent changes in frost .
The vegetation in the region corresponds to the semi-arid puna . It is treeless and mainly consists of thorn bushes , grasses , succulents and cushion plants . It is used economically as a llama , alpaca and sheep pasture .
Transport network
Cahuana is located at a distance of 205 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the largely unpaved road Ruta 12 leads 189 kilometers in a south-westerly direction via Ancaravi and Huachacalla to Sabaya and on to Pisiga on the Chilean border. From Sabaya a dirt road leads west, after sixteen kilometers reaches Cahuana and then continues to the villages of San Antonio de Pitacollo and La Rivera .
population
The population of the village has more than tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 51 | entire canton of Cahuana |
| 2001 | 85 | Census site Cahuana |
| 2012 | 173 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Sabaya 62.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carola Dörrie, Soil and Vegetation in the Huachacalla Area (PDF file; 21.84 MB)
- ↑ 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 October 29, 2013 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 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Salinas de Garci-Mendoza region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.44 MB)
- Municipio Sabaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )